Vote background --------------- This follows up on a [previous proposal] that was abandoned in favor of an OMC vote on the behavior change introduced in [PR#13359]. Within today's OTC meeting this was further discussed with the attending members that also sit in the OMC.
The suggestion was to improve the separation of the OTC and OMC domains here, by having a more generic OTC vote to qualify as bug fixes the changes to let any OpenSSL app return an (early) failure exit status when a called function fails. The idea is that, if we agree on this technical definition, then no OMC vote to allow a behavior change in the apps would be required in general, unless, on a case-by-case basis, the "OMC hold" process is invoked for whatever reason on the specific bug fix, triggering the usual OMC decision process. [previous proposal]: <https://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-project@openssl.org/msg02241.html> [PR#13359]: <https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13359> Vote text --------- topic: In the context of the OpenSSL apps, the OTC qualifies as bug fixes the changes to return a failure exit status when a called function fails with an unhandled return value. Even when these bug fixes change the apps behavior triggering early exits (compared to previous versions of the apps), as bug fixes, they do not qualify as behavior changes that require an explicit OMC approval. Proposed by Nicola Tuveri Public: yes opened: 2020-11-30
