Developing For OpenSSL - Revision history

Mark at 15:21, 8 March 2018

2018-03-08T15:21:28Z

Mark at 15:19, 8 March 2018

2018-03-08T15:19:15Z

Jonspillett: Remove RT references, add GitHub ones

2017-04-20T00:57:26Z

Remove RT references, add GitHub ones

Matt at 22:53, 29 July 2015

2015-07-29T22:53:38Z

Rsalz at 20:04, 29 July 2015

2015-07-29T20:04:55Z

Matt: Add link to about page

2014-11-28T10:40:44Z

Add link to about page

Matt: Answer the "I want to join OpenSSL" question

2014-11-28T10:37:49Z

Answer the "I want to join OpenSSL" question

New page

Periodically people ask us how to join the OpenSSL development team. This page is an attempt to answer that question.

Firstly it is important to understand that OpenSSL is complex. It is both a fully featured cryptography library as well as an SSL/TLS library. In addition the command line tools provide a wide array of capabilities. It can take quite a while to become proficient in coding in the internals. It is also clearly security sensitive. For those reasons joining the main development team is by invitation only. Most of the current development team have had an association with OpenSSL of one sort or another for a long time. Some have been on the project since the beginning, whilst many others joined later. For those joining later, without exception, everyone had a number of years of experience working with OpenSSL before they joined the team itself.

However, there are still a number of ways to contribute to the project without joining the development team. We welcome such contributions:

* A good place to start is the openssl-users and openssl-dev mailing lists. The first of these forums will give you the opportunity to help out other users of OpenSSL, and learn from other experts in its use. The latter will give you an insight into some of the development issues that the team is tackling - and in particular issues being raised through the RT bug tracking system and responses to those issues.

* We are always looking for good people to help us build up the information held within this wiki. Documentation is one area where we are keen to improve things, and this wiki is an important location for people to come to. Information on how to get an account is available on the [[Welcome]] page.

* As well as through the wiki, documentation updates to the man pages are also accepted through the RT bug tracking system (send your patch to rt@openssl.org)

* Code patches can also be submitted via RT

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 However, there are still a number of ways to contribute to the project without joining the development team. We welcome such contributions:
-* A good place to start is the openssl-users and openssl-dev mailing lists. The first of these forums will give you the opportunity to help out other users of OpenSSL, and learn from other experts in its use. The latter will give you an insight into some of the development issues that the team is tackling - and in particular issues being raised through the [https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues GitHub issue tracking] system and responses to those issues.
+* A good place to start is the openssl-users mailing list. This will give you the opportunity to help out other users of OpenSSL, and learn from other experts in its use. Development issues that the team is tackling can be viewed via the [https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues GitHub issue tracking] system.
 * We are always looking for good people to help us build up the information held within this wiki. Documentation is one area where we are keen to improve things, and this wiki is an important location for people to come to. Information on how to get an account is available on the [[Welcome]] page.
 * Bug fixes and enhancements to the code and documentation can be submitted via [https://github.com/openssl/openssl GitHub] as [https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues issues] or [https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pulls pull requests]. See the README for details. If using GitHub pull requests please create and/or reference an issue so that it will automatically show up in the issue timeline.

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 Periodically people ask us how to join the OpenSSL development team. This page is an attempt to answer that question.
-Firstly it is important to understand that OpenSSL is complex. It is both a fully featured cryptography library as well as an SSL/TLS library. In addition the command line tools provide a wide array of capabilities. It can take quite a while to become proficient in coding in the internals. It is also clearly security sensitive. For those reasons joining the main development team is by invitation only. Most of the current development team have had an association with OpenSSL of one sort or another for a long time. Some have been on the project since the beginning, whilst many others joined later. For those joining later, without exception, everyone had a number of years of experience working with OpenSSL before they joined the team itself. The list of current development team members is available here: https://www.openssl.org/about/
+Firstly it is important to understand that OpenSSL is complex. It is both a fully featured cryptography library as well as an SSL/TLS library. In addition the command line tools provide a wide array of capabilities. It can take quite a while to become proficient in coding in the internals. It is also clearly security sensitive. For those reasons joining the main development team is by invitation only. Most of the current development team have had an association with OpenSSL of one sort or another for a long time. Some have been on the project since the beginning, whilst many others joined later. For those joining later, without exception, everyone had a number of years of experience working with OpenSSL before they joined the team itself. The list of current development team members is available here: https://www.openssl.org/community/
 However, there are still a number of ways to contribute to the project without joining the development team. We welcome such contributions:

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 However, there are still a number of ways to contribute to the project without joining the development team. We welcome such contributions:
-* A good place to start is the openssl-users and openssl-dev mailing lists. The first of these forums will give you the opportunity to help out other users of OpenSSL, and learn from other experts in its use. The latter will give you an insight into some of the development issues that the team is tackling - and in particular issues being raised through the RT bug tracking system and responses to those issues.
+* A good place to start is the openssl-users and openssl-dev mailing lists. The first of these forums will give you the opportunity to help out other users of OpenSSL, and learn from other experts in its use. The latter will give you an insight into some of the development issues that the team is tackling - and in particular issues being raised through the [https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues GitHub issue tracking] system and responses to those issues.
 * We are always looking for good people to help us build up the information held within this wiki. Documentation is one area where we are keen to improve things, and this wiki is an important location for people to come to. Information on how to get an account is available on the [[Welcome]] page.
-* Bug fixes and enhancements to the code and documentation, can be submitted as RT tickets or pull requests.  See the README for details.  If using GitHub pull requests, please create a ticket (by sending an email to rt@openssl.org) with the github pull request number referenced in it so that we can easily track it.
+* Bug fixes and enhancements to the code and documentation can be submitted via [https://github.com/openssl/openssl GitHub] as [https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues issues] or [https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pulls pull requests]. See the README for details. If using GitHub pull requests please create and/or reference an issue so that it will automatically show up in the issue timeline.

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	* We are always looking for good people to help us build up the information held within this wiki. Documentation is one area where we are keen to improve things, and this wiki is an important location for people to come to. Information on how to get an account is available on the [[Welcome]] page.		* We are always looking for good people to help us build up the information held within this wiki. Documentation is one area where we are keen to improve things, and this wiki is an important location for people to come to. Information on how to get an account is available on the [[Welcome]] page.

−	* Bug fixes and enhancements to the code and documentation, can be submitted as RT tickets or pull requests. See the README for details. If using GitHub pull requests, please create a ticket with the PR number so that we can easily track it.	+	* Bug fixes and enhancements to the code and documentation, can be submitted as RT tickets or pull requests. See the README for details. If using GitHub pull requests, please create a ticket (by sending an email to rt@openssl.org) with the github pull request number referenced in it so that we can easily track it.

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	* We are always looking for good people to help us build up the information held within this wiki. Documentation is one area where we are keen to improve things, and this wiki is an important location for people to come to. Information on how to get an account is available on the [[Welcome]] page.		* We are always looking for good people to help us build up the information held within this wiki. Documentation is one area where we are keen to improve things, and this wiki is an important location for people to come to. Information on how to get an account is available on the [[Welcome]] page.

−	* ~~As well as through~~ the ~~wiki~~, ~~documentation updates to the man pages are also accepted through the RT bug tracking system (send your patch to rt@openssl.org)~~	+	* Bug fixes and enhancements to the code and documentation, can be submitted as RT tickets or pull requests. See the README for details. If using GitHub pull requests, please create a ticket with the PR number so that we can easily track it.
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−	* Code patches can ~~also~~ be submitted ~~via~~ RT