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

[Michal Hlavinka]

----- "Arnaud Quette" <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

yes, but I was ill and he was faster :)