--On June 17, 2013 10:23:52 -0400 Miloslav Trmač <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
me and Milan Bartoš plan to spend some time working on making NSS easier
to develop for - to make sure there is easy to find documentation, the
applications don't need unnecessary boilerplate code, and so on.
The current list of items we'll try to improve is at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mitr/NSS:DeveloperFriendliness . Any
comments are welcome. We don't expect to touch the "actual
cryptography", only to improve the developer-facing APIs.
For the smaller items, you can expect proposed patches in bugzilla; for
the larger efforts we'll obviously send more detailed proposals for
discussion.
We've both done some work with and on NSS, but are by no means experts,
so please have some patience with us while we learn.
Here are two bugs where I raised a usability issue and contributed code:
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280869>
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358440>
I think these would be good usability issues to address. When I contributed
that code, I was a Sun Microsystems employee and Sun was an NSS
contributor. However, I can not maintain or update that code as my present
employer does not have a code contribution agreement with Mozilla to my
knowledge.
I'll mention one other usability issue. I am getting pressure from my
employer to stop using NSS due to the MPL 2 license. I got less pressure
when I could use NSS under the LGPL 2.1 branch of the tri-license.
Switching to OpenSSL has been suggested.
- Chris
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