(Late) monthly report, November 2021

[Richard Levitte]

Apart from normal business, such as normal reviews, OMC business, OTC
business, attending daily stand up meetings, attending OMC and OTC
meetings, normal system administration tasks, small fixes, etc., key
activities this month:

* Development:
  - Fix DER encoder implementations for output structures "EC" and "SM2"
  - ERR: Add a missing common reason string
  - Make OSSL_PARAM_BLD_push_BN{,_pad}() return an error on negative numbers
  - DOC: Add a few previously documented functions [1.1.1]
  - DOC: Add a few previously documented functions [3.0 and master]
  - OSSL_PARAM_allocate_from_text() performs badly on edge cases for integers
  - Fix OSSL_PARAM_allocate_from_text() to do sign extension
  - TEST: Enable and fix test_bn2padded() in test/bntest.c
* Web:
  - Make sure to create missing directories
* Policies:
  - REVIEWED: Add a Design Process Policy
* Sysadmin:
** Git repositories
  - Prepared gitolite for displaying messages of repositories moved to
    github.openssl.org.
  - Create some github pre-receive hooks to replace those used in the
    gitolite setup:
    - no-fixup-or-squash.sh     to replace VREF/fixupsquash/
    - no-unannotated-tags.sh    to replace VREF/OBJTYPE/commit/refs/tags/.*
  - Moved some repositories from gitolite to github.openssl.org
** Automation
  - Set up an automation buildbot to take over tasks that were done
    with post-receive hooks in gitolite or cron jobs:
    - make local mirrors of all github repos of interest
    - make select local mirrors available through git://git.openssl.org/
      and https://git.openssl.org/
    - mirror push selected repositories to github.
    - create snapshots (for https://ftp.openssl.org/snapshot/)
    - generate OpenSSL's web pages
    - generate OpenSSL's blog pages
** System configuration
  - apache: modify the /blog alias for www.openssl.org
  - Restored our mailman installation to Ubuntu packaging, and
    upgraded it.

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Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/