On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 06:31:34PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Note that this is just how to help me, not a consensus view from the
> whole team, though I have no doubt much of it will be helpful to the
> team, too.
> 
> 1. Triage RT (https://rt.openssl.org/).
> 
> RT has been neglected for a long time. People could usefully go
> through it and identify:
> 
> a) Tickets that can be closed
> 
> b) Tickets that should have action taken, and how urgent that action is.
> 
> If a ticket describes a potential security issue, then please don't
> just announce it to the list. Instead send it to
> [email protected].
> 
> In order to avoid duplication of effort, perhaps someone should set up
> a github repo (or something else) assigning ranges to volunteers? It
> might also be useful to use the same repo to hold the triage results
> (so things can be ticked off as they are actioned).

I already created a github branch for this, but I stopped adding
patches at it since I didn't know if this was going to be useful
or not.

See:
https://github.com/kroeckx/openssl/commits/master-proposed


> 2. Triage Github pull requests
> 
> There are less of these, and I do try to look at them from time to
> time, nevertheless I think we are behind.

I've looked over them several time already, and I've merged a few
of those.  But it's hard for me to know what you would find an
acceptable change and what not, so I've tried to be conservative.

> 3. Write fixes
> 4. Convert fixes to pull requests

I'll try to work on that.

> 5. Port pull requests across all branches

I wasn't really sure what to do here, and was planning to have
branches you can pull for the various branches.



Kurt

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