Re: Self Introduction: Chris Rapier

[Chris Rapier <rapier@xxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxx> 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)

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