We have a product which allows the management of the FTP server and client on the IBM ‘i’ and we wondered if anyone would like to be involved in a project to review the source and help make a new product out of it. The goal will be to take the product to open source, but I would like to see some improvements before we get that far! We have seen a number of downloads of the 5250 FTP client which is a derivative of the FTP Manager client which caused us to wonder if this would be a suitable Open Source project to start with? As the improved product will be published as open/free the existing product will be pulled from the site.
We are willing to share the source with those who would be willing to help clean it up and develop some new functionality. It is written entirely in C and uses UIM for the user interface. We would like to build the underlying functionality into a web based product where the interface can either be a 5250 or browser based session.
The people I am hoping to attract will need C programming, PHP, UIM and javascript skills. You will also need access to an IBM ‘i’ with the relevant compilers. The client side of things could possibly be written almost entirely in PHP, but the security management and internal logging will still require native programs etc.
The FTP Manager is listed on our website and you can see the features we have built in already, the plan would be to improve the products interfaces, add ssl support and develop the new browser based interface. Once finished we will provide download-able source and possibly compiled objects etc for the community.
If you have the required skills, time and energy to get involved let us know. Once we have an understanding of the support we will get we can start the process of making the source available.
Chris…