On 10/12/2011 05:47 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > [...]
Oh yes, it was not that big, but it touched a lot of files which made it difficult to get the context. In any case big patches are sometimes necessary and I was confident this wouldn't go bad: it was my way of saying "this guy should be a committer so he can fix the stuff he breaks" :),
Armin should definitely become a committer soon. I'm no longer sure how that process works. I had sent a vote request regarding Ariel to the private list but for some reason it did not get there. I even sent it through the apache SMTP using my @apache.org email address, but it still didn't suffice to let it through.
Another thing is that we should be focusing on removing copyleft components and perhaps some cleanups before doing enhancements. I specifically want to avoid the situation in LO where the code and the configuration options keep growing and growing without control to the point where patches occasionally make gcc run out of memory.
yes.
[...] - Use of OpenSSL instead of nss for AES encryption.
I'm looking into replacing nss by openssl for encryption and signing of documents. NSS is currently also responsible for key and certificate management and replacing that seems to be the really tricky part...
Herbert