I actually talk to Damien occasionally. We're just on different paths and
that's okay. There are a couple patches I'll be submitting but he's, for
very good reason, very cautious. The full patch set is also pretty large at
this point and I can understand him not wanting to take that on. Either
way, he's aware of the work I'm doing so I try not to push it.
Chris
On January 28, 2022 20:02:33 Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/28/22 17:28, rapier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm Chris Rapier and I'm in the process of following the directions for
> the inclusion of a new package into Fedora. I'm the primary developer of
> hpn-ssh, a series of patches against OpenSSH to provide additional
> functionality and performance to OpenSSH. I've been maintaining and
> extending this code for 15 to 18 years now. I've worked on a number of
> projects include web100 (which led to the development of autotuning
> receive buffers), web10g, the visible human project, testrig2.0, and so
> forth. All of the work I do is provided to the public with minimal
> license restrictions (usually BSD).
>
> We've been able to do a lot to make OpenSSH faster and more flexible for
> a number of different communities over the years. While we primarily
> focused on the high performance networking community (hence the hpn part
> of the name) we've seen users in most every domain - from home users to
> major corporations and governments. What we've never had is a package or
> a place to easily distribute that package to the redhat community. I'm
> hoping someone can take a look the request I've submitted and be willing
> to sponsor me.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2047943
>
> I work at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (part of Carnegie Mellon
> University) as a research scientist and developer. hpn-ssh is one of the
> first projects I took on solo. I've been fortunate enough to get support
> for it over the years, most recently with a grant from the National
> Science Foundation. I'm committed to maintaining this package for as
> long as the community is interested in it (and then some).
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Chris Rapier
This is awesome! That said, have you considered submitting as many patches
as possible upstream? That way *all* OpenSSH users would benefit. I know
they have rejected some of the changes (such as NULL ciphers) for security
reasons, but others might be accepted.
--
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)