On 09/06/2021 07:57, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 11:31:40PM +0200, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote:
I looked around a bit and haven???t found a way for a non commercial user to
open a change request with openvpn team, please point me out if I???m wrong.
You're talking to the open source community. Here, it works by either
sending a patch, or by offering a bounty for someone else to do the patch.
The openvpn commercial branch is not maintaining the openvpn 2.x package
but offering the "OpenVPN AS" server.
Just to give a more official response to what Gert says.
The OpenVPN community is quite self-managed, with contributors from a
larger scope than OpenVPN Inc alone; which is great for everyone. We do
have people on our pay-roll who spends time on the community project as
well, but that is primarily to submit patches needed for OpenVPN Access
Server and to review other patches which we find interesting. That
said, we all (community and company) do try to review as much as
possible of the patches sent to the -devel mailing list. If the change
is reasonable and has a valid use case, it will most likely be merged
and included in a future release.
If you don't want to develop and contribute such a feature or change,
you may try to contact OpenVPN Support [1] and open a feature request
there. If you are a paying customer and the feature is something we see
being valuable both for Access Server and the community, then we might
look into it and develop it. This feature will then arrive in both
Access Server and the a community OpenVPN 2.x release.
Just filing a request in the community Trac instance [2] will most
likely just collect dust until someone finds that feature interesting
enough to help providing a patch for it. That's sad, but that's the
reality - as most of the community developers have other paid jobs they
need to care for first and they typically fixes issues which they are
hit by in their own use cases.
So if you want to see your issue being resolved the quickest way, the
best way is to contribute with a patch yourself - or that you hire
someone to do it on your behalf.
[1] <https://openvpn.net/support/>
You don't have to be a paying customer to sign up for an account.
[2] <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/newticket>
You must register for an account (valid for community Trac and
forums) if you don't have one already.
--
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
OpenVPN Inc
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