[02:50] <EtienneG> who is the list moderator for ubuntu-directory@lists.ubuntu.com ?
[03:41] <dendrobates> not me.
[03:43] <dendrobates> EtienneG: looks like it is Corey Burger
[03:43] <EtienneG> dendrobates, he is Burgundavia, right ?
[03:44] <dendrobates> EtienneG: yes
[03:53] <dendrobates> EtienneG: why
[03:53] <EtienneG> dendrobates, I have a long post in response to your email from this morning
[03:53] <EtienneG> it is stuck in the moderation queue
[03:54] <EtienneG> I could cancel and resend, but I would rather just have it approved
[04:06] <dendrobates> I did the same thing with my post.
[04:16] <robertj> between not knowing c and not knowing perl, I have spent 10x the effort figuring out whats going wrong with the perl stuff than the C stuff
[04:17] <dendrobates> robertj: so your saying C is easier to debug?
[04:17] <robertj> dendrobates: dunno, or maybe the tutorials are written by non-idiots
[04:18] <dendrobates> perhaps.  or at least fewer idiots.
[04:29] <zch> hi all
[04:49] <dendrobates> zch: hello
[04:52] <zch> dendrobates: I have read you mail
[04:53] <zch> dendrobates: will you lead the development of directory services for ubuntu?
[05:29] <dendrobates> zch: I will try to drive it,  but lead is a strong word.  :)
[05:29] <zch> ok  :) very good news
[05:30] <zch> so "directory services" has now a higher priority for Ubuntu/Canonical?
[05:36] <dendrobates> I am trying to make that the case.
[05:41] <zch> very good
[05:41] <zch> what about the "authtool"?
[05:45] <dendrobates> I see that fitting over this work, as a gui.  Authtool  does not configure /etc/ldap.conf, afaik.
[05:47] <dendrobates> I would like to pull the /etc/pam.d config bit out and make a wrapper tool that anything could use, like we do for inetd.
[05:47] <robertj> dendrobates: it appears that there is some place holder code for that
[05:48] <dendrobates> better to do it with debconf in a package, than the code will be easy to write.
[05:50] <dendrobates> I like the work done on authtool, and would like it to continue, but take advantage of the new packages.
[05:52] <zch> the meta-package with the debconf scripts and the ldap (pam, nss) -packages in main, would be a huge step forward
[05:52] <dendrobates> we could then do the same for AD.
[05:53] <dendrobates> I wanted to do the easiest first.  So we could see progress and attract others to help.
[05:55] <zch> ok, so the first works are packaging and debconf-scripts
[06:02] <dendrobates> yes.
[06:25] <zch> good bye