[Mageia-sysadm] Mailling list type

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 10 december 2010 20:06:52 schreef Michael scherer:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:13:11PM +0100, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
> > Op vrijdag 10 december 2010 13:15:31 schreef Michael Scherer:
> > 
> > imo, it's more dynamic to use groups with uniqueMember attributes; of
> > course, the queries are 2-level that way, however, i mostly wrote or
> > appended to existing plugins to make it conform that way.
> > 
> > If you wish to make use of it, i can spend some time to modify an
> > existing LDAP plugin to make it use 2-level query calls.
> > 
> > what language is used, for this plugin?
> 
> this is sympa, and it is perl. But the code of sympa is not the best perl
> code I have seen. For exemple, there is some duplication, and it would
> benefit from a more modular design regarding datasource, etc.
> 
> And the problem is the fact is not a plugin, this is in the main
> application ( having plugin for this would be nice ). So unless you manage
> to get it pushed upstream in a released version, I would not suggest to
> use it :)
> 
> So in the mean time, memberOf would do the trick.

who's the upstream here?

if i make a patch and you would still use memberOf; then i guess i won't spend 
any time on it.