Re: Introductions - want to contribute to NSS developer friendliness

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Newman
--On June 17, 2013 10:23:52 -0400 Miloslav Trmač m...@redhat.com wrote: me and Milan Bartoš plan to spend some time working on making NSS easier to develop for - to make sure there is easy to find documentation, the applications don't need unnecessary boilerplate code, and so on. The current

Re: Introductions - want to contribute to NSS developer friendliness

2013-06-17 Thread Rob Stradling
On 17/06/13 18:58, Chris Newman wrote: snip I think these would be good usability issues to address. When I contributed that code, I was a Sun Microsystems employee and Sun was an NSS contributor. However, I can not maintain or update that code as my present employer does not have a code

The NSS_SURVIVE_DOUBLE_BYPASS_FAILURE build option will be removed in NSS 3.15.1

2013-06-17 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
NSS has a build option NSS_SURVIVE_DOUBLE_BYPASS_FAILURE that enables some code in the SSL library to turn off PKCS #11 bypass mode automatically if the attempt to bypass PKCS #11 fails: http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/search?string=NSS_SURVIVE_DOUBLE_BYPASS_FAILURE I believe nobody is using

Re: Introductions - want to contribute to NSS developer friendliness

2013-06-17 Thread Julien Pierre
Chris, On 6/17/2013 10:58, Chris Newman wrote: I'll mention one other usability issue. I am getting pressure from my employer to stop using NSS due to the MPL 2 license. I got less pressure when I could use NSS under the LGPL 2.1 branch of the tri-license. Switching to OpenSSL has been

Re: Introductions - want to contribute to NSS developer friendliness

2013-06-17 Thread Robert Relyea
On 06/17/2013 10:58 AM, Chris Newman wrote: I'll mention one other usability issue. I am getting pressure from my employer to stop using NSS due to the MPL 2 license. I got less pressure when I could use NSS under the LGPL 2.1 branch of the tri-license. Switching to OpenSSL has been suggested.