Re: Backports to 1.1.1 and what is allowed

2020-06-16 Thread Dr Paul Dale
I’d also support 11968 being merged. I find the recent discussion and the likelihood of all major distros (supporting the S390x) picking up the patches fairly compelling, especially since the same people will be maintaining it. I would need to go and double check the non-S390x specific parts fo

Re: Backports to 1.1.1 and what is allowed

2020-06-16 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 02:03:58PM +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: > PR 11188 proposes to backport a series of s390x patches to the 1.1.1 > branch. IIUC it includes performance improvements as well as support for > new hardware instructions. > > I think we need to have a much clearer and more explicit

Monthly Status Report (May 2020)

2020-06-16 Thread Richard Levitte
Apart from normal business, such as normal reviews, OMC business, normal system administration tasks, small fixes, etc., key activities this month: * Development - [not_yet_merged] [WIP] Refactor CPUID code (PR openssl/openssl#11311) - EVP: Only use the engine when one is defined, in pkey

Late Monthly Status Report (April 2020)

2020-06-16 Thread Richard Levitte
Apart from normal business, such as normal reviews, OMC business, normal system administration tasks, small fixes, etc., key activities this month: * Development - EXPERIMENTAL: remove all the legacy bits from a EVP_PKEY (PR openssl/openssl#10797) - DOC: Add more description of EVP_PKEY_f

Late Monthly Status Report (March 2020)

2020-06-16 Thread Richard Levitte
Apart from normal business, such as normal reviews, OMC business, normal system administration tasks, small fixes, etc., key activities this month: * Development - [not_yet_merged] WIP: apps: Switch to using OSSL_STORE for loading keys, certs, ... (PR openssl/openssl#7390) - Implement do

Late Monthly Status Report (February 2020)

2020-06-16 Thread Richard Levitte
Apart from normal business, such as normal reviews, OMC business, normal system administration tasks, small fixes, etc., key activities this month: * Development - PROV: add RSA signature implementation (PR openssl/openssl#10557) - Disable devcryptoeng on newer OpenBSD versions [1.1.1]

Late Monthly Status Report (January 2020)

2020-06-16 Thread Richard Levitte
Apart from normal business, such as normal reviews, OMC business, normal system administration tasks, small fixes, etc., key activities this month: * Development - [not_yet_merged] WIP: OSSL_STORE for providers (PR openssl/openssl#9389) - CORE & EVP: Adapt KEYEXCH, SIGNATURE and ASYM_CIPH

Backports to 1.1.1 and what is allowed

2020-06-16 Thread Matt Caswell
PR 11188 proposes to backport a series of s390x patches to the 1.1.1 branch. IIUC it includes performance improvements as well as support for new hardware instructions. I think we need to have a much clearer and more explicit policy about exactly what is allowed to be backported to a stable branch