Am 23.04.2014 19:30, schrieb Hanno Böck:
Hi,
For lack of a better name I chose this subject. I have the feeling I
need to ask some questions here, because I - as probably many others
out there - would like to contribute in making a better openssl.
Just to recap a few things that happened:
* Kurt Roeckx asked recently on this list if the patch applying process
could be improved and quite obviously was offering to help. As far as
I can see he got some kind of answer from Steve Marquess but none from
the openssl devs themselves. To put it mildly, I find that (ignoring
patches and people offering help) rude and not the behaviour I expect
from an open source project.
Well, i can understand that the OpenSSL team is reluctant to accept
Kurt's help ;-).
[...]
* I think everyone is aware by now about openbsd creating libressl.
While there are many probably quite controversial changes they made,
I think a lot of it by looking at it are just fixes for obvious bugs.
I haven't seen any effort by now to review and partly merge the
patches openbsd did. Is there anything underway?
My opinion is that the OpenBSD developers are free to submit bug
corrections to OpenSSL via e.g. OpenSSL's request tracker mechanism. I
think it's not the duty of the OpenSSL team to extract valuable patches
from the code massacre the OpenBSD people seem to have executed.
Best regards,
Richard
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