[OpenAFS] rxk5 Mainline Issues?

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:16:54 -0500


On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Evan Macbeth <emacbeth@sinenomine.net> wro=
te:
> Simon,
>
> Thanks for summarizing where K5 support stands, it=92s great to know.
>
> I wanted to ask for a bit more information. You said:
>
> =93There are two projects which will bring more complete Kerberos V
> support to AFS (in particular, support for a wider range of encryption
> types). Marcus Watt's rxk5 is functionally complete, but a number of
> issues have to be addressed before it can be merged to the mainline. I
> can't speak to timescales for this - I guess it depends very much on
> how much time Marcus has to spend on it.=94
>
> Could you expand a bit on the =93number of issues=94 that remain if it=92=
s
> functionally complete? Is there a published list of things that need to b=
e
> in place for something to be mainlined, in general, or are these issues o=
nly
> for Rxk5?

Evan,

Check out this message, the summary of the hackathon. It covers the
action items for rxk5 needed for suitability to standardize:
http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2009-October/017096.html

Derrick