Re: [Opensc-devel] libp11 + engine_pkcs11

[Ludovic R. <lud...@gm...>]

Hello,

2015-08-24 10:55 GMT+02:00 Martin Paljak <ma...@ma...>:
> On 24/08/15 11:15, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>> Hello,
>>  These two projects had several years to have a release and as it is
>> now distributions ship versions of it with various different patches
>> applied each, enabling different features each. Fortunately (or not)
>> there is popular software depending on engine_pkcs11 (and thus
>> libp11), making these two libraries quite important. I've opened [0]
>> and [1], but I'm not sure whether there is any developer active on
>> these components. If there is, would it be possible to have a release
>> on these components? Otherwise,  would it make sense to mark these
>> projects as obsolete or abandonware so that no new projects start
>> depending on them?
>
> These libraries do get quite little attention and "developer discretion"
> might be justified, but eventually developers must make their own
> judgements.
>
> Also, why don't you roll a new release? Whoever uses them for real life
> apps is probably the best to answer questions about usability and
> releasability.
>
> (The above should be read that if nobody objects and Nikos is willing,
> he should be granted release access to these two projects.)

I fully agree.

Nikos, do you volunteer as libp11 and engine_pkcs11 maintainer/release manager?

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau