VOTE: Technical Items still to be done

[Dr. Matthias St. Pierre]

+1

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openssl-project <openssl-project-bounces at openssl.org> On Behalf Of Tomas Mraz
> Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 6:21 PM
> To: Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org>; openssl-project at openssl.org
> Subject: Re: VOTE: Technical Items still to be done
> 
> +1
> 
> On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 15:47 +0100, Matt Caswell wrote:
> > topic: The following items are required prerequisites for the first
> > beta
> > release:
> >  1) EVP is the recommended API, it must be feature-complete compared
> > with
> >     the functionality available using lower-level APIs.
> >    - Anything that isn’t available must be put to an OTC vote to
> > exclude.
> >    - The apps are the minimum bar for this, subject to exceptions
> > noted
> > below.
> >  2) Deprecation List Proposal: DH_, DSA_, ECDH_, ECDSA_, EC_KEY_,
> > RSA_,
> >     RAND_METHOD_.
> >    - Does not include macros defining useful constants (e.g.
> >      SHA512_DIGEST_LENGTH).
> >    - Excluded from Deprecation: `EC_`, `DSA_SIG_`, `ECDSA_SIG_`.
> >    - There might be some others.
> >    - Review for exceptions.
> >    - The apps are the minimum bar to measure feature completeness for
> > the EVP
> >      interface: rewrite them so they do not use internal nor
> > deprecated
> >      functions (except speed, engine, list, passwd -crypt and the
> > code
> > to handle
> >      the -engine CLI option).  That is, remove the suppression of
> > deprecated
> >      define.
> >      - Proposal: drop passwd -crypt (OMC vote required)
> >    - Compile and link 1.1.1 command line app against the master
> > headers and
> >      library.  Run 1.1.1 app test cases against the chimera.  Treat
> > this
> > as an
> >      external test using a special 1.1.1 branch. Deprecated functions
> > used by
> >      libssl should be moved to independent file(s), to limit the
> > suppression of
> >      deprecated defines to the absolute minimum scope.
> >  3) Draft documentation (contents but not pretty)
> >    - Need a list of things we know are not present - including things
> > we
> > have
> >      removed.
> >    - We need to have mapping tables for various d2i/i2d functions.
> >    - We need to have a mapping table from “old names” for things into
> > the
> >      OSSL_PARAMS names.
> >      - Documentation addition to old APIs to refer to new ones
> > (man7).
> >      - Documentation needs to reference name mapping.
> >      - All the legacy interfaces need to have their documentation
> > pointing to
> >        the replacement interfaces.
> >  4) Review (and maybe clean up) legacy bridge code.
> >  5) Review TODO(3.0) items #12224.
> >  6) Source checksum script.
> >  7) Review of functions previously named _with_libctx.
> >  8) Encoder fixes (PKCS#8, PKCS#1, etc).
> >  9) Encoder DER to PEM refactor.
> > 10) Builds and passes tests on all primary, secondary and FIPS
> > platforms.
> > 11) Query provider parameters (name, version, ...) from the command
> > line.
> > 12) Setup buildbot infrastructure and associated instructions.
> > 13) Complete make fipsinstall.
> > 14) More specific decoding selection (e.g. params or keys).
> > 15) Example code covering replacements for deprecated APIs.
> > 16) Drop C code output options from the apps (OMC approval required).
> > 17) Address issues and PRs in the 3.0beta1 milestone.
> > Proposed by .
> > Public: yes
> > opened: 2020-10-08
> > closed: 2020-mm-dd
> > accepted:  yes/no  (for: X, against: Y, abstained: Z, not voted: T)
> >
> >   Matt       [+1]
> >   Mark       [  ]
> >   Pauli      [  ]
> >   Viktor     [  ]
> >   Tim        [  ]
> >   Richard    [  ]
> >   Shane      [  ]
> >   Tomas      [  ]
> >   Kurt       [  ]
> >   Matthias   [  ]
> >   Nicola     [  ]
> --
> Tomáš Mráz
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