On 3 July 2014 13:01, Loganaden Velvindron <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Salz, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No, I don't mean to imply that you are one of the bad guys.  It's just that 
>> we have only one real way of knowing who the good guys are, and that is 
>> being part of the development team.  Yes, that can be very inconvenient.  
>> Trust me, I know, it took more than 10 years for the team to open up and add 
>> me. :)
>>
>> I don't where your ticket is, but it should be closed.

Done.

>>
>> I know this frustrates you, and I'm sorry about that.
>
> I see such trends as leading to dangerous situations in the future.
> OpenSSL is widely deployed, and the developers appear to grow older,
> according to the various interviews I read. (I don't wish to offend
> any of you guys here). What happens if something happens to the core
> developers ? Who will take over ?
>
>
> The roadmap is nice, but if we don't get young developers who can work
> their way to maintain the OpenSSL codebase, we're going to hit a huge
> problem, in 10 years :-(
>

I think your criticism might have been valid in the past - but not any
longer. The team have recognised that new blood is required, and that
is why the team has doubled in size in the last couple of months.

Matt
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