+1 > -----Original Message----- > From: openssl-project <openssl-project-boun...@openssl.org> On Behalf Of > Nicola Tuveri > Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 1:03 PM > To: OpenSSL Project <openssl-project@openssl.org> > Subject: OTC VOTE: Fixing missing failure exit status is a bug fix > > 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
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