I actually talk to Damien occasionally. We're just on different paths and
that's okay. There are a couple patches I'll be submitting but he's, for
very good reason, very cautious. The full patch set is also pretty large at
this point and I can understand him not wanting to take that on. Either
way, he's aware of the work I'm doing so I try not to push it.
Chris
On January 28, 2022 20:02:33 Demi Marie Obenour <demioben...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/28/22 17:28, rapier wrote:
Hello,
I'm Chris Rapier and I'm in the process of following the directions for
the inclusion of a new package into Fedora. I'm the primary developer of
hpn-ssh, a series of patches against OpenSSH to provide additional
functionality and performance to OpenSSH. I've been maintaining and
extending this code for 15 to 18 years now. I've worked on a number of
projects include web100 (which led to the development of autotuning
receive buffers), web10g, the visible human project, testrig2.0, and so
forth. All of the work I do is provided to the public with minimal
license restrictions (usually BSD).
We've been able to do a lot to make OpenSSH faster and more flexible for
a number of different communities over the years. While we primarily
focused on the high performance networking community (hence the hpn part
of the name) we've seen users in most every domain - from home users to
major corporations and governments. What we've never had is a package or
a place to easily distribute that package to the redhat community. I'm
hoping someone can take a look the request I've submitted and be willing
to sponsor me. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2047943
I work at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (part of Carnegie Mellon
University) as a research scientist and developer. hpn-ssh is one of the
first projects I took on solo. I've been fortunate enough to get support
for it over the years, most recently with a grant from the National
Science Foundation. I'm committed to maintaining this package for as
long as the community is interested in it (and then some).
Thanks for your time,
Chris Rapier
This is awesome! That said, have you considered submitting as many patches
as possible upstream? That way *all* OpenSSH users would benefit. I know
they have rejected some of the changes (such as NULL ciphers) for security
reasons, but others might be accepted.
--
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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