On 1 July 2014 13:37, Pierre DELAAGE <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > With the second criteria "Vendor Support", > M$ will dictate easily the openssl roadmap (?!?!?), > and, indirectly, > will force any openssl win-XX users to migrate to their last wonderful > products. > > Clearly, above "common sense", "Vendor support" is not a proper criteria to > offer something like openssl or anything else to a platform. > > Criteria such as "platform still in use" is more appropriate. >
This is, in fact, the first criterium listed, phrased as "Currency, i.e. a platform is widely deployed and in current use". > And I do not think either that "devteam wish or <<present>> skills", should > be also the limit of "openssl availability/compatibility/support on some > platforms" : > > If the devteam miss some skills, they can -at least- call the community. > I think that, through some diving in the forum posts history, it is quite > easy to identify some skilled people... > > I am still, regularly, offering wce support, for free, and I am glad if this > can help the team and the community. > > Isn't it, finally, one of the purpose of community projects : bringing > skills together for better products... > > Regards > Pierre > > > Le 01/07/2014 11:50, Ben Laurie a écrit : > >> On 1 July 2014 06:52, Zoltan Arpadffy <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I see that Rich is doing a fantastic job by cleaning up the backlog... >>> I absolutely agree that very old releases cannot be supported, but what >>> about the platforms? >>> >>> I thought until now, that as long there are developers who are willing to >>> develop for a certain platform and there is some community interest in using >>> that - the platform will be supported as odd might it be in the Windows and >>> Linux dominated World. >>> >>> I just started to wonder, will soon come the time when my patches will be >>> also refused with the "unsupported platform" comment? >> >> Our soon-to-be-released roadmap has this to say on "supported platform": >> >> * Currency, i.e. a platform is widely deployed and in current use >> * Vendor support >> * Available to the dev team, i.e. the dev team have access to a >> suitable environment in which to test builds and deal with tickets and >> issues >> * Dev team ownership, i.e. at least one person on the team is willing >> to take some responsibility for a platform >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org >> Development Mailing List [email protected] >> Automated List Manager [email protected] > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List [email protected] > Automated List Manager [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
