Monthly Status Report (April 2022)

[Hugo Landau]

Apart from normal business, attending daily standup meetings, attending OTC
meetings, sprint planning meetings, etc., key activities this month:

    - Worked on DDD demo diffs
    - Further work on LHASH deprecation
    - PR #18031 removing unused functionality from libctx
    - Worked on a premium support issue
    - Investigated #18001
    - PR #18034 fixing #18010 (BN result)
    - PR #18037 adding manpages
    - PR #18038 fixing #18035 (lack of SSL_get0_verify_cert_store)
    - Responded to #18040
    - Created additional DDD demo and diff
    - Familiarisation with sysadmin documentation
    - Investigated Windows compatibility of DDD demos
    - Investigated use of buffering with DDD demos
    - PR #18070 adding support for loading root certificates from Windows
    - Wrote up issue #18068 (SSL_CERT_DIR issue)
    - Investigated use of sparse arrays in the codebase
    - PR #18083 (tests for 1.1 EC compression compatibility validation)
    - sysadmin: Configured Windows VM to allow building OpenSSL
    - PR #18141 fixing #18139 (OPENSSL_LH_flush)
    - PRs to adjust hooks and commit scripts to support release review bypass:
        - Internal PR
        - PR #18155
        - PR tools#115
    - Attended 3.1 release planning workshops
    - Attended QUIC planning workshop
    - Investigated QUIC TLS extension
    - sysadmin: Setup Fedora 35, CentOS 8 Stream, Rocky Linux 8, Ubuntu 20.04,
        Debian 10, FreeBSD 13as buildbot workers
    - PR #18190 porting #18038 to 1.1
    - Responding to feedback on API diffs
    - Attended meeting about libctxs
    - Attended QUIC prioritisation workshop
    - Attended sysadmin meeting
    - PR #18210, proposal for BIO_dgram API evolution
    - Work on BIO_dgram implementation