FWIW, I am one of those waiting for George's code to be merged in. He has done a great job putting this patch together and it will make it a whole lot easier to maintain current OpenSSL builds on the AS/400.
Marcel On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:00:45 +1000, Steven Reddie wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I didn't so much mean lack of response from the OpenSSL team, but > lack of response from anyone. I assumed there would be many people > interested in an OS/400 port so was surprised that there had been > no responses stating so. > > I greatly appreciate the work that you and all members of the > OpenSSL team do and appreciate the balance that you must maintain. > > Regards, > > Steven > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-openssl- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker Sent: > Thursday, 30 September 2004 7:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [openssl.org #951] FW: New port to the AS/400 (iSeries) > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:15:04 +1000, "Steven Reddie" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > smr> I'm surprised that nobody has responded. > > I feel I need to raise a little bit of awareness here. The OpenSSL > Project is entirely volunteer driven, and as such, we (those having > write access to the repository) are working mostly on our free time. > This means that there are a ton of other facets of life playing in, > including looking for jobs (and jobs in this field are still a bit > scarse), *doing* your job (which may or may not be related to > OpenSSL), taking care of the family, taking care of your self. > > Just to give you a picture of what life can be like, I've been > silent to the almost extreme for a while, because I'm dealing with > very deep family issues, and have to contemplate seeing my son move > to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, which has had a huge > impact on my emotional self, and my capacity to focus. I've used > the little external focus I had left to do my job properly, and to > plan for my future (next job, other projects that I'm barely > keeping alive, ...). > I haven't even looked at the OpenSS bugs database for ages (= a few > months, which is a lot considering I used to look at the stuff > there about twice a day before that). > > So, I'd like to ask for a little bit of patience with us, as we all > have some kind of life we need to take care of and make a priority > as well. > > Thanks for listening. > > Cheers, > Richard > > ----- > Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. > See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
