Gary Williams published an article with Marina Sum on Sun Developer Network just this week about Perspectives on Quality Assurance for OpenDS. Good to see an article focused on quality. Gary is definitely the subject matter expert as well.
One aspect they mentioned particularly catches the attention:
"Make no mistake, interest and involvement from the community directly affect the quality of the software. It's a huge plus to have members who frequently test, evaluate, and improve the code, and who also reject enhancements that introduce too many bugs. As a result, quality and success of the community are interlinked."
In other words you do not have to be an LDAP expert to get involved in the OpenDS community. As Ludo wrote, "Feel free to register to Java.net and join the OpenDS project as a user. To register, choose a login name, enter a password and your email address. Nothing else is required. Joining the OpenDS project as a user just indicates your interest in the project and will allow you to subscribe to the mailing lists if you want to."
The Java.net page is https://opends.dev.java.net/. There you find the mailing lists, the issue tracker, and so forth. The OpenDS project home page is at http://www.opends.org. You will find a wealth of both developer and user documentation at https://www.opends.org/wiki/.
