Comments - Google Summer of Code 2015
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As you can see, this task is not currently in our «GSoC 2015 tasks» list. For us to accept this project, we need to understand first what this LDAP authentication plugin will do, why our users might want to use it, how it'll be different from using PAM authentication plugin with pam_ldap.so.
So I'd suggest to start from that — from the explanation why users should use the LDAP authentication plugin.