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OpenSSL goes GitHub only (openssl.org)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We’re no longer using our old ftp, rsync, and git links for distributing OpenSSL. These were great in their day, but it’s time to move on to something better and safer. ftp://ftp.openssl.org and rsync://rsync.openssl.org are not available anymore. As of June 1, 2024, we’re also going to shut down https://ftp.openssl.org and git://git.openssl.org/openssl.git mirrors.

GitHub is becoming the main distributor of the OpenSSL releases.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I doubt many of the commentators here used any of the deprecated methods to contribute to openssl.

It's one thing to talk about what's good for open source, it's quite another to practice it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I doubt many commenters here have used a wheelchair ramp to access a public building. Guess we should just remove all those ramps since that accessibility doesn’t affect them. The barrier to entry for setting up a wheel chair ramp is more expensive than offering at least one non-corporate code contribution method.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your analogy would fit if the deprecated methods didn't have a higher barrier to entry than using GitHub.

This is less like removing the wheelchair ramps and more like removing the steps at the back of the building.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe. Maybe if the back steps required an account with a US-based service owned by a publicly-traded megacorporation that is collecting your data as per the ToS just to enter. That’s a helluva barrier that should never be expected for free software.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

And yet no actual contributor to openssl is losing sleep over this.