Exactly, here's where I say our diff is as simple as a pull request on github. 
Review it and apply it to trunk, done.  Posting diffs to an email list in 2015 
as the preferred way of committing patches, IMHO, is a huge barrier to entry.  
At least it is for our team. 

Will

> On Mar 8, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Daniel Stenberg <dan...@haxx.se> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 8 Mar 2015, Will Cosgrove wrote:
>> 
>> We have created a trac issue including a diff with additional HMAC support 
>> #286 and it has never been applied. It's going on 11 months of just sitting 
>> there. That indicates a problem with the current process that I'd like to 
>> see resolved.
> 
> Unfortunately, I think our greatest problem is that we're just not enough 
> people with time and energy to spend on libssh2 issues.
> 
> Issues posted to trac are basically not being read or handled by anyone, it 
> is just a way to store them until someone at some point in the future wants 
> to help out and push our project forward. This can be seen by the large 
> amount of open issues, many of them very old.
> 
> Also, personally, I would much more appreciate if people brought issues and 
> disussions to the mailing list as I will see such more likely and timely and 
> participate in that.
> 
> -- 
> 
> / daniel.haxx.se
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