[Nut-upsdev] Announce: new team member (to work on Mozilla NSS port)

Arnaud Quette aquette.dev at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 10:42:26 UTC 2010


2010/11/29 Michal Hlavinka

>
> ----- "Arnaud Quette"  wrote:
>
> > Dear fellows,
> >
> > As you have probably seen, NUT has had a recent boost through the help
> > of Eaton.
> >
> > Frederic Bohe (contractor for Eaton France) has worked on Augeas, and
> > is now working the Windows port.
> >
> > Chetan Agarwal, seconded by Prashi Gandi (both from Eaton India) are
> > working on XCP and quality / validation related projects.
> >
> > I'm now pleased to announce that Emilien Kia (contractor for Eaton
> > France) is joining the team to work on Mozilla NSS port.
> > A branch (ssl-nss-port) was created some time ago to track the work on
> > this topic.
> > But now that we have somebody to work on it, we can expect result soon
> > (around Christmas).
> >
> > For the recall, the port from OpenSSL to Mozilla NSS will:
> > - solve a major distribution isssue: since OpenSSL is licensed under
> > BSD, some (most) Linux distributions were not able to ship NUT
> > packages with SSL support enabled. NSS being available under 3
> > licenses, among which the GPL, this will soon be an old story.
> > - NSS is FIPS 140 certified, while OpenSSL is not. For more
> > information on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140
> > - finally, there is a move in Linux distributions, toward
> > standardizing on NSS everything related to certificate management.
> > That means in the end that Linux distro would be able to provide tools
> > (textual and graphical) to manage a central certificates repository,
> > which means easier tasks for the users.
> >
> > Please join me into welcoming Emilien, and supporting the Eaton
> > Opensource team ^_^
> >
> > @Michal: I hope you will enjoy ;-)
>
> great news! :)
>

indeed.

btw, I've seen a Fedora forwarded report (#656440) by a user on Alioth'
tracker (#312848).
you should probably forward these directly to speed up the process.

cheers,
Arnaud
-- 
Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://powerquality.eaton.com
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org
Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
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