Has serf found a new home?

[Giuseppe Castagno]

Hi all,

following what was decided in LibreOffice conference call on
July, 30th ([1] 'WebDAV: switch to Serf? (Michael S./Giuseppe C.)' topic, towards the end),
I'll start a comparison on the possible use of serf wrt neon.

I did some work with serf in Apache OpenOffice ([2][3]) so the implementation part should
not be a problem,the only question I have is about a new serf home.

On a forum thread (starts Mar, 12th) there was a discussion about choosing
a new 'home' for serf. Has a decision been made on that?

From the svn log I gathered that 1.4.0 was near release, I think that when serf founds a new home it will be released, right?

Thank you.
Giuseppe Castagno
giuseppe dot castagno at acca-esse dot eu
giuseppe dot castagno at gmail dot com

[1] http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Minutes-of-ESC-call-2015-07-30-td4156013.html
[2] https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126305#c3
[3] https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126312#c1

[Giuseppe Castagno]

Hi all,

following what was decided in LibreOffice conference call on July, 30th
([1] 'WebDAV: switch to Serf? (Michael S./Giuseppe C.)' topic, towards the end),
I'll start a comparison on the possible use of serf wrt neon.

I did some work with serf in Apache OpenOffice ([2][3]) so the implementation part should
not be a problem,the only question I have is about a new serf home.

On a forum thread (starts Mar, 12th) there was a discussion about the choosing of
of a new 'home' for serf. Has a decision been made on that?

Thank you.

Kind Regards,
Giuseppe Castagno

[Lieven Govaerts]

Hi Giuseppe,

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Giuseppe Castagno
<giuseppe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> following what was decided in LibreOffice conference call on
> July, 30th ([1] 'WebDAV: switch to Serf? (Michael S./Giuseppe C.)' topic,
> towards the end),
> I'll start a comparison on the possible use of serf wrt neon.
>
> I did some work with serf in Apache OpenOffice ([2][3]) so the
> implementation part should
> not be a problem

Interesting, let us know if you have questions/need help with yr use of serf.

> ,the only question I have is about a new serf home.
>
> On a forum thread (starts Mar, 12th) there was a discussion about choosing
> a new 'home' for serf. Has a decision been made on that?

That conversation hasn't been finalised no. The general consensus was
to knock on the ASF's door (since almost all of us are ASF
committers/members), but again, that decision hasn't been made yet.

> From the svn log I gathered that 1.4.0 was near release, I think that when
> serf founds a new home it will be released, right?

Those two things are not related. In fact, as soon as someone finds
the time to review the open 1.4.0 TODO's, we'll release 1.4.0.
I hope that can be done in the next weeks.

hth,

Lieven

>
> Thank you.
> Giuseppe Castagno
> giuseppe dot castagno at acca-esse dot eu
> giuseppe dot castagno at gmail dot com
>
> [1]
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Minutes-of-ESC-call-2015-07-30-td4156013.html
> [2] https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126305#c3
> [3] https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126312#c1
>

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[Giuseppe Castagno]

Hi Lieven,

On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 10:06:52 PM UTC+2, Lieven Govaerts wrote:

Hi Giuseppe,


On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Giuseppe Castagno
<giuseppe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> following what was decided in LibreOffice conference call on
> July, 30th ([1] 'WebDAV: switch to Serf? (Michael S./Giuseppe C.)' topic,
> towards the end),
> I'll start a comparison on the possible use of serf wrt neon.
>
> I did some work with serf in Apache OpenOffice ([2][3]) so the
> implementation part should
> not be a problem

Interesting, let us know if you have questions/need help with yr use of serf.

actually there is one, asked for in the LO dev list by a LO core dev [1]: if serf can use NSS instead of OpenSSL
I answered that according to what I know it's not possible.

May be in the future NSS will be possible ?

ATB

Giuseppe.
[1] http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Somebody-has-broken-with-webdav-serf-please-fix-tt4155521.html#a4155718

[Lieven Govaerts]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Giuseppe Castagno

<giuseppe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lieven,
>
>
> On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 10:06:52 PM UTC+2, Lieven Govaerts wrote:
>>
>> Hi Giuseppe,
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Giuseppe Castagno
>> <giuseppe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > following what was decided in LibreOffice conference call on
>> > July, 30th ([1] 'WebDAV: switch to Serf? (Michael S./Giuseppe C.)'
>> > topic,
>> > towards the end),
>> > I'll start a comparison on the possible use of serf wrt neon.
>> >
>> > I did some work with serf in Apache OpenOffice ([2][3]) so the
>> > implementation part should
>> > not be a problem
>>
>> Interesting, let us know if you have questions/need help with yr use of
>> serf.
>
>
> actually there is one, asked for in the LO dev list by a LO core dev [1]: if
> serf can use NSS instead of OpenSSL
> I answered that according to what I know it's not possible.
>
> May be in the future NSS will be possible ?

Replacing OpenSSL by NSS is certainly possible, although it'll require
a change to the API which is not backwards compatible.
This will require some refactoring in serf, but a lot of that work has
been done already in the - now obsolete - work to implement Apple's
Secure Transport.

This being said, I don't see any of the current serf devs having a
need for other SSL implementations - or one would have been
implemented a long time ago - so the chances for getting NSS support
in serf in the near future are slim.

Lieven

[Greg Stein]

In the sense of "us" working on it ... I think we'd have no problem incorporating patches to support NSS.

Cheers,

-g