OTC VOTE: Accept PR#16725

[Tim Hudson]

On the basis of further discussion I'm changing my vote to 0 which enables
this to pass now.

Tim.


On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 5:18 PM Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 19/10/2021 19:31, Nicola Tuveri wrote:
> > I believe Matt will find the time at some point to post the minutes
> > from today's meeting, but until then here is my recap.
>
> We decided in the meeting that posting the minutes to the list wasn't
> necessary and we would just push them to the repo:
>
>
> https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=otc.git;a=blob;f=meeting-minutes/minutes-2021-10-19.txt;h=8bae2b86ecd7c4f967ba2aa822535dc0facbbfa9;hb=HEAD
>
> Matt
>
> >
> > The discussion mostly focused on why the changes in #16725 are a
> > bugfix and not a new feature, which would be a prerequisite to be
> > admissible to be merged in the 3.0 branch.
> > As I recall it, there were no objections to the final outcome of the
> > PR to be desirable, the vote is entirely about this being a bugfix or
> > not.
> >
> > It would be on those who voted +1 to properly argument why this is a
> > bugfix and not a new feature, but the short version of that argument
> > is that the outcome of #16725 was the "intended behavior" for 3.0.0.
> > The counterargument is that we could not find written evidence (i.e.,
> > GH issues/PRs, documentation, and/or tests) that indeed the project
> > ever committed to have this behavior in 3.0.0.
> >
> >
> > The Strategic Architecture document has some text that could be
> > somewhat related and used to support the "intend behavior" view, but
> > the document clearly states
> >
> >> This document outlines the OpenSSL strategic architecture. It will take
> multiple releases, starting from 3.0.0, to move the architecture from the
> current "as-is" (1.1.1), to the future "to-be" architecture.
> >
> > Hence, it does not really prove that this functionality was always
> > planned for the 3.0.0 release.
> >
> > Accepting this PR for the next minor release would not require a vote.
> >
> >
> >
> > I hope this recap is helpful to inform your decision.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nicola
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 9:10 PM Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:07:26AM +0100, Matt Caswell wrote:
> >>> topic: Accept PR#16725 as a bug fix for backport into 3.0 subject to
> the
> >>> normal review process
> >>
> >> So we have various people voting -1. Does someone want to explain
> >> why they vote -1?
> >>
> >>
> >> Kurt
> >>
> >
>
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