[python-ldap] Future of python-ldap.org - an introduction, and a plan

[Petr Viktorin]

On 11/21/2017 05:47 PM, Carlos Sanchez wrote:
> Any plans for pypy/pypy3 support?

Not from me, but feel free to contribute that. And if you can get tests 
to pass under PyPy, let's add it to the testing matrix.



> Carlos
> 
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Petr Viktorin <pviktori at redhat.com 
> <mailto:pviktori at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
>     As you might have heard, Michael Ströder decided to step down from
>     maintaining python-ldap.
> 
>     Michael, I would like to thank you for the years of maintenance and
>     development. Python's LDAP story would be nowhere near where it is
>     now if it weren't for you.
>     I hope to work together again in the future.
> 
>     Speaking of future: in a few days, SourceForge will shut down its
>     CVS hosting. And as CVS is fading into obsolescence, Python 2 has a
>     few last years of bugfix-only support left. The python-ldap project
>     now needs something more than just new development and bug fixes.
> 
>     That's where I can help, so I've volunteered to step up as a new
>     maintainer, provided that we don't find anyone better.
>     I can't, of course, hope to replace Michael. I don't know that much
>     about LDAP. My contributions will be mostly limited to the
>     administration side of things.
> 
>     As for my background – my day job is Python maintenance for
>     Fedora-derived distros. I've been involved with pyldap, a fork of
>     python-ldap that adds Python 3 support.
>     I hope to bring Python 3 support into python-ldap, as that's the
>     mission that originally brought me to this project.
> 
> 
>     My current plan is:
> 
>     # Move to Git
>     Git is currently the most popular open-source version control
>     system, and also one I'm familiar with.
>     The pyldap project has a branch of history imported from CVS, so
>     conversion should not be a problem.
> 
>     # Move to GitHub and Pagure.
>     GitHub (https://github.com/) is nowadays the most popular Git
>     hosting provider. Its one big disadvantage is that it's
>     closed-source and proprietary.
>     Pagure (https://pagure.io/) is another Git hosting site, which is
>     open-source. Hopefully that will work for those opposed to GitHub.
>     (And plain old patch e-mails still work, of course.)
> 
>     # Moderate this list
>     Starting today, I'm a moderator here at python-ldap at python.org
>     <mailto:python-ldap at python.org>. I hope to keep it a friendly place.
> 
>     # Move the documentation to Read the Docs
>     https://readthedocs.org/ is quite a nice service for hosting
>     Sphinx-based documentation. Let's put the docs there.
> 
>     # Move the website to Read the Docs
>     If possible, I'll merge the website into the documentation, and
>     point python-ldap.org <http://python-ldap.org> there.
>     If that doesn't work out for any reason, I'll search for another
>     reliable free-of-charge hosting service for static webpages.
> 
>     # Merge changes from the pyldap project
>     The Python 3 fork was, from the start, intended to be merged back if
>     at all possible. If I get to maintain python-ldap, that's what will
>     happen. If possible, I'd like to do it as a series of reviewed
>     changes rather than import everything wholesale.
> 
>     # Continue maintaining
>     After this I will, as my time allows, merge reviewed code, help with
>     Python- or Git-related problems, moderate discussions, and generally
>     make it possible for code authors and reviewers to do their work.
> 
> 
>     If you have any comments or concerns, or would like to help, please
>     speak up!
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Petr Viktorin
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Petr Viktorin