[Mailman-Developers] A bit of perspective ....

[Jeff Warnica]

I feel bad about jumping in to this discussion, and not necessaraly being
prepared to offer any real help, but anyway.

LDAP may be a better data[base|sink] for configuration data then SQL. It may be
harder to work with (only because less people have experience with it), and it
may be less usefull to a lot of sites (everyone has MySQL installed, not so for
LDAP), but preference storage is a common use for LDAP. For sites who already
have LDAP deployed, you can leverage the existing authentication data. LDAP
stores "objects", SQL "rows"...

Sory if I sound like a marketdroid, but I'd feel bad if LDAP wasent at least
considered.

Quoting Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui at plaidworks.com>:

> On Jan 30, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Kevin McCann wrote:

>> I have been harping about SQL in Mailman for a year now but it is 
>> only recently that the mere thought of it being worked into MM in 
>> one way or another has being entertained. Talking isn't entirely 
>> useless. In fact it's  necessary in order to influence change. Just 
>> so long as it doesn't stop at talk.
>>
>
> I've got a bit of MySQL background. My time is still limited, so I
> won't commit to coding I can't depend on myself to finish -- but if you
> want someone to help out on DB design and stuff, I'm in. I'll do what I
> can and maybe help avoid some of the potholes. I'd like to see this,
> too.