Monthly Status Report (March)

Matt Caswell matt at openssl.org
Fri Apr 1 09:12:39 UTC 2022


As well as normal reviews, attending regular OMC and OTC meetings, 
attending daily stand up meetings, responding to user queries, wiki user 
requests, OMC business, sys-admin, support customer issues, CLA 
submissions, handling security reports, etc., key activities this month:

Wrote the QUIC SSL API proposal
Responded to various feedback on the QUIC SSL API proposal
Updates to the SSL API proposal following OTC review
Proposed and started the vote on new primary platforms
Created an SSL Record layer strawman API proposal
Wrote a draft record layer design document
Handled pre-notification for the security issue
Developed a patch for missing pthread_atfork
Wrote up documentation on how to use ZenHub
Reviewed lots of "New Issues" in ZenHub awaiting triage
Prepared for the 3.0.2/1.1.1n and 1.0.2zd releases
Performed the 3.0.2/1.1.1n and 1.0.2zd releases
Responded to press and other enquiries regarding the release as well as 
other follow ups
Took part in workshops on the SSL record layer proposal
Updated the record layer proposal based on feedback received
Significant review of PR#5257
Updates to the technical requirements document
Investigated a test failure in PR#17936
Reviewed the congestion control design and took part in a congestion 
control workshop
Investigated ZenHub permissions issue for new contractors
Investigated an aarch64 issue resulting in TLSv1.3 failed connections
Reviewed the reference ("demo") client applications and investigated an 
EOF problem and other related issues
Organised some on-boarding releated items for the new manager
Investigated a security report (result was "not a CVE")

Matt


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