simplon.plone.ldap resurfaces as plone.app.ldap

[Wichert Akkerman]

simplon.plone.ldap offers a convenient Plone control panel to manage
LDAP and Active Directory connections in a Plone site. It is (briefly)
documented in Martin's excellent Professional Plone Development book and
judging by the feedback I've received has a fair number of satisfied users.

I was not completely satisfied with it for non-technical reasons and
have for a while now felt that it deserves more community influence. The
fact that it used the simplon package namespace and was maintained in a
private svn repository did not help. Therefore I have just donated the
simplon.plone.ldap package to the plone foundation and imported its
code, including full svn history, in svn.plone.org and renamed the
package to plone.app.ldap. I am hoping that will encourage others to
improve it further and make sure that using LDAP/AD in Plone will be a
no-brainer.

Wichert.

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[Martin Aspeli-2]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> simplon.plone.ldap offers a convenient Plone control panel to manage
> LDAP and Active Directory connections in a Plone site. It is (briefly)
> documented in Martin's excellent Professional Plone Development book and
> judging by the feedback I've received has a fair number of satisfied users.
>
> I was not completely satisfied with it for non-technical reasons and
> have for a while now felt that it deserves more community influence. The
> fact that it used the simplon package namespace and was maintained in a
> private svn repository did not help. Therefore I have just donated the
> simplon.plone.ldap package to the plone foundation and imported its
> code, including full svn history, in svn.plone.org and renamed the
> package to plone.app.ldap. I am hoping that will encourage others to
> improve it further and make sure that using LDAP/AD in Plone will be a
> no-brainer.

Thanks Wichert!

Having used it on a few sites, I can attest that it works very well. It
could probably do with some more tests and there are a few minor
robustness and UI bugs. Hopefully those will be fixed now.

Martin

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Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who
want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book


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[Alexander Limi]

Thanks for your generosity, Wichert! This is a very nice gesture, and it's  
an important package for Plone — who doesn't integrate with LDAP for  
authentication these days? :)

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:51:03 -0700, Wichert Akkerman  
<wichert@...> wrote:

> simplon.plone.ldap offers a convenient Plone control panel to manage
> LDAP and Active Directory connections in a Plone site. It is (briefly)
> documented in Martin's excellent Professional Plone Development book and
> judging by the feedback I've received has a fair number of satisfied  
> users.
>
> I was not completely satisfied with it for non-technical reasons and
> have for a while now felt that it deserves more community influence. The
> fact that it used the simplon package namespace and was maintained in a
> private svn repository did not help. Therefore I have just donated the
> simplon.plone.ldap package to the plone foundation and imported its
> code, including full svn history, in svn.plone.org and renamed the
> package to plone.app.ldap. I am hoping that will encourage others to
> improve it further and make sure that using LDAP/AD in Plone will be a
> no-brainer.
>
> Wichert.
>

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