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]
