Future of Cyrus-SASL

[Ken Murchison]

Now that I am employed by FastMail, I will have more time to work on 
SASL.  In fact, I plan to have a 2.1.27 release candidate available by 
the end of this week.


On 07/12/2017 07:09 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I started a small discussion on this in cyrus-sasl issue #433, but the 
> discussion better belongs here. :)
>
> While I know that Fastmail is taking on the Cyrus-IMAPD project now 
> that CMU is divesting itself of it, there does not seem to be a strong 
> plan around Cyrus-SASL.  My general understanding is that it is not 
> something that Fastmail generally uses.  However, there are many other 
> projects where cyrus-sasl is a critical part of the software.
>
> Those include:
> OpenLDAP
> Postfix
> Apache2 (Sasl module)
> SSSD
> autofs (ldap integration)
> Squid proxy
> qemu
> memcached
> Exim
> PHP
> mutt
> 389 directory server
> subversion
>
> It has been 5 years since the last release of Cyrus-SASL, and 
> unfortunately it had a number of bugs.  There have been a large number 
> of patches sent to the list in that time, as well as some 142 issues 
> on the Github site (hard to know full correlation at this time).  
> There has been some work towards a 2.1.27, but it seem stalled at this 
> time.
>
> I'm not sure if keeping SASL tied to the IMAPD project makes 
> particular sense anymore, given the overall changes that have 
> occurred.  Regardless of that particular question, the SASL project 
> needs a dedicated development team to start churning through what has 
> come in via the list in the last few years, as well as what's in github.
>
> Generally, for the path going forward, perhaps an inquiry to the 
> cyrus-sasl list to see if there are individuals willing to commit/join 
> the SASL project?  I certainly would be willing to help with the 
> release engineering portion, as I do for the OpenLDAP and Heimdal 
> projects.
>
> I look forward to hearing people's thoughts.
>
> Warm regards,
> Quanah
>
> -- 
>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Product Architect
> Symas Corporation
> Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP:
> <http://www.symas.com>
>

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Cyrus Development Team
FastMail Pty Ltd