Monthly Status Report (March 2019)

[Richard Levitte]

There's an oops, the Web part is a copy of the February report.
Ignore it in this report.

On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:10:17 +0200,
Richard Levitte wrote:
> 
> Apart from normal business, such as normal reviews, OMC business,
> normal system administration tasks, etc., key activities this month:
> 
> * Development
> 
>   - Deprecated the "hw" configuration option and made "padlockeng"
>     disablable
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8380)
>   - Finalized addition of generic trace API together with Matthias
>     St Pierre
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8198)
>   - Finalized work on the basics for OpenSSL 3.0 replumbing: provider
>     object
>     (PRs openssl/openssl#8287)
>   - Finalized work on the OpenSSL 3.0 core: generic method constructor
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8340)
>   - Finalized work on the OpenSSL 3.0 EVP: constructor for EVP methods
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8341)
>   - Reviewed the added OSSL_PARAM API
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8451)
>   - Reviewed further trace API work
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8463)
>   - Added mechanism for fallback providers and pre-populating the
>     provider store with well known providers ("default")
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8480)
>   - Reviewed the addition of chacha20 and poly1305 assembler for ia64
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8540)
>   - Finally remove everything that has to do with "heartbeats"
>     (PR openssl/openssl#1928)
>   - Started work on the OpenSSL 3.0 core: config module for providers
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8549)
>   - Started work on OSSL_PARAM name registration and checking
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8461)
>   - Started work on tidying our common perl scripts
>     (PR openssl/openssl#8525)
>   - [unpublished] Started work on flexible installation commands for
>     Makefiles
>   - [unpublished] Continued work on flexible building commands for
>     Makefiles
> 
> * Web
> 
>   - Published the OpenSSL 3.0 Design document
>     (PR openssl/web#113)
>   - Reworked the release strategy to include the version scheme for
>     OpenSSL 3.0 and on; generalised the criteria for alpha, beta and
>     release; reviewed the new stability policy
>     (PR openssl/web#82)
>   - Reviewed the added extended support contract information
>     (PR openssl/web#122)
>   - Reworked web site building to centralise release information
>     (PR openssl/web#120)
> 
> -- 
> Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
> OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/
> 
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Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/