Re: Rules of engagement for cyrus-sasl contributions

PRs are the best way to contribute.  I will try to find some time to 
work through the existing PRs.


On 3/29/19 10:11 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> Hello list,
> as of recently I am working as the Red Hat maintainer for the cyrus-
> sasl package taking over from Jakub Jelen.
>
> I am writing to ask what is the correct way to engage with regard to
> patch review and getting work done in general. I have submitted a few
> PRs to the github tree over the last few months but I've seen no
> reaction so I am wondering if I need to ping any individual
> specifically or need to drop a message here, or anything else.
>
> I am planning to write some more patches, for example we would like to
> move away from any custom cryptography implementation in our packages
> and I found DES, RC4 and MD5 algorithms implemented in the package.
> I would like to replace them with simple calls to the OpenSSL EVP
> interface but it is not clear to me that is is ok, and how to deal with
> other platforms I do not have access to (like Mac OS X).
>
> Any guidance ?
>
> Thanks,
> Simo.
>
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