cvs-nserver-devel

Re: self signed certificates patch

[Alberto D. <al...@ur...>]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Alexey Morozov wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:59:19PM +0200, Alberto Dainotti wrote:
> > Hello, I didn't receive any comments about this patch.
> We're sorry, really.

NP :-)

> > Don't you think it could be useful ?
> Probably. Right now we're in process of creating of some kind of release
> of NCLI-1-11-1 as stable branch so Alex is busy on, hmm, bureaucratic
> tasks, such as updating docs, making future releases plans e.t.c.

If you want please tell me how can I help more on development..
For example, I've found some errors in INSTALL-nserver but I don't know
if this file is going to disappear in favour of the admin guide or not..
I didn't know you were working on a release and updating docs, I thought
I would read it on this mailing list..
I don't know what you are working on.. how much/who are the developers..
etc..



Alberto Dainotti
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printf and selfsigned

[Alberto D. <al...@ur...>]

Hello, I hope to not be annoying :-)
In src/ssl-client.c there are two printf()'s which instead should
use error() (it is annoying when redirecting stdout, for example
when using cvs rdiff). Attached there is a patch.

The same was for my proposed patch for self-signed certificates,
there was a wrong printf() too.
So I attached a new patch with the latest corrections.


						Alberto.

Alberto Dainotti
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Re: printf and selfsigned

[Alexey M. <al...@hs...>]

>>>>> "AD" == Alberto Dainotti <al...@ur...> writes:

 AD> Hello, I hope to not be annoying :-) 

Ouch!  How could that be? :) 

 AD> In src/ssl-client.c there are two
 AD> printf()'s which instead should use error() (it is annoying when
 AD> redirecting stdout, for example when using cvs rdiff). Attached there
 AD> is a patch.

Yes, applied.  AFAIK, that was just temporary debugging output which should
probably just be dumped (or moved to a SSL policy, because that's an
interesting information sometimes).


 AD> The same was for my proposed patch for self-signed certificates, there
 AD> was a wrong printf() too.  So I attached a new patch with the latest
 AD> corrections.

It is still unapplied :)

--alexm

Re: self signed certificates patch

[Alexey M. <mo...@no...>]

=F7 =F0=D4=CE, 26.04.2002, =D7 18:44, Alberto Dainotti =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=
=CC:
> If you want please tell me how can I help more on development..
> For example, I've found some errors in INSTALL-nserver but I don't know
> if this file is going to disappear in favour of the admin guide or not..
Well, this file often serves as source when we create a proper .texi
docs. So if you notice a mistake there, it would be nice if you tell us
about it.

> I didn't know you were working on a release and updating docs, I thought
> I would read it on this mailing list..
Hmm, there're some private talks (mostly in Russian as it out native
language) so there's not so much mails in the list.

> I don't know what you are working on.. how much/who are the developers..
> etc..

2Alex Mahotkin: Alex, let's publish our release schedule and some TODOs.
I think it would useful for the entire nCVS community :-).

Re: self signed certificates patch

[Alexey M. <al...@hs...>]

>>>>> "AD" == Alberto Dainotti <al...@ur...> writes:

 >> > Don't you think it could be useful ?  Probably. Right now we're in
 >> process of creating of some kind of release of NCLI-1-11-1 as stable
 >> branch so Alex is busy on, hmm, bureaucratic tasks, such as updating
 >> docs, making future releases plans e.t.c.

 AD> If you want please tell me how can I help more on development..  For
 AD> example, I've found some errors in INSTALL-nserver but I don't know if
 AD> this file is going to disappear in favour of the admin guide or not..

Yes, it will disappear.  But the errors are still welcome.  Also, the
functionality of 'cvspasswd' utility would be extended to handle more than
one virtual repository, and its description in INSTALL-nserver is somewhat
irrelevant now.

 AD> I didn't know you were working on a release and updating docs, I
 AD> thought I would read it on this mailing list..  

I'll try to announce more of what I'm working on :)  Unfortunately current
situation is such that ongoing activity is mostly discussed in private
mails and IRC chats between me and Alex.

Particularly, that's one of the reasons I'm trying to move towards "making
a release": it would sum up of what was happening for past several months,
and extend the auditory a lot.  I think there is just no information around
that ACLs actually work in cvs-nserver :) 

 AD> I don't know what you are working on.. 

There were three main trends in cvs-nserver development:

- ACL support;

- helper sub-commands to better handle web-based repository
  administration/monitoring tools.  That's commands like 'cvs ls', cvs
  lstags', 'cvs lsmodules', and 'cvs lsacl'. 

- meta-repository support (this is what is going to be implemented in the
  next couple of months);  more details later;  in short: it is needed when
  you have a lot of mostly independeny software projects (like
  SourceForge), but you have a rather strict management of those projects
  (say when you're a commercial body-shop);


 AD> how much/who are the developers..  etc..

Currently Alex Morozov and I are "primary" developers.  There are
occasionally people, including you, throwing in a patch or two, but not
much.

--alexm