That's a great idea, I'm +1.

-Flavio

> On 11 Jul 2016, at 21:13, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to recommend that we consider a special 3.4 branch for this.
> (sorry I'm late to the party but I was on vacation till today, just back).
> 
> We could create a 3.4+ssl branch, or something like that, and give special
> permissions for non-committers to commit to the branch. People that are
> interested in this feature but not committers. Once the folks working on
> this are satisfied the PMC could do a special "3.4.9+ssl" release artifact
> (say just a tarball), separate from the 3.4.x line, for folks that are
> interested to use it. This would require minimal oversight by the
> committers. I believe other components are doing this, typically for
> feature development before being merged back in, but it would enable
> interested parties to get access to ssl prior to 3.5 becoming stable. It
> would also benefit 3.5 in the sense that anything we learn on that branch
> would be merged into the trunk - fixes say.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Luciano Afranllie <[email protected]
>> wrote:
> 
>> Quick question, ZK-2125 depends on
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2069 and
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2072?
>> 
>> It seems to be given the description of ZK-2063...
>> 
>> Regards
>> Luciano
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Flavio Junqueira <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think you're talking about porting the patch of ZK-2125. I haven't
>>> really assessed how much work it would be to backport it, but it is
>>> possibly not hard.
>>> 
>>> -Flavio
>>> 
>>>> On 01 Jul 2016, at 15:54, Luciano Afranllie <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks Flavio
>>>> 
>>>> What about back porting in our own private fork while we wait for the
>>> 3.5?
>>>> I would like your help understanding how easy/difficult this may be.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> Luciano
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Flavio Junqueira <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Luciano,
>>>>> 
>>>>> The 3.4 branch is stable and we are only releasing bug fixes at this
>>>>> point, so it is currently not an option to back port.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We are all pretty eager to see the 3.5 branch stable, and we are in
>> the
>>>>> process of voting the release candidate for 3.5.2, but that's still
>>> tagged
>>>>> as alpha. We don't have a current plan for 3.5.3 yet, but I believe no
>>> one
>>>>> here wants to wait too long have it out. I suspect that it won't be
>>> before
>>>>> 3 months from now given the pace that we have been releasing, though.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Flavio
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 01 Jul 2016, at 13:07, Luciano Afranllie <
>> [email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi there
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We are in the need to have SSL support in Zookeeper in order for our
>>>>>> solution to be FIPS complaint.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Of course one option is to wait for 3.5 to be released but given we
>>> are a
>>>>>> little bit time constrained we want to consider an alternative of
>>>>>> backporting SSL support from 3.5 to 3.4 (we are using 3.4.8)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Do you think this is doable? Can you please tell me the impact of
>> doing
>>>>>> this and if you think it is a viable alternative? We have experience
>>> with
>>>>>> Java but not with ZK at development level.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Of, course if you have a rough estimate about when ZK 3.5 may be
>>> released
>>>>>> that may help in our decision too.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Luciano
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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