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curl distro discussion 2024

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Sherif Nagy edited this page Mar 21, 2024 · 20 revisions

Event

A video conference.

Date: Thursday March 21, 2024
Time: 16:00 UTC
Duration: two hours

google meet

Invited

People and organizations that package and ship curl and/or libcurl for their users. Linux distros, BSD distros, operating system people and the likes; intermediaries. And everyone else who is interested in the problems, solutions and challenges involved.

The event is open and free.

Plans to join

  • people packaging curl for Debian, Mageia, RHEL/Fedora, Windows 10/11, MacPorts, Homebrew, Yocto Project, AlmaLinux, Arch Linux, Rocky Linux
  • Daniel, lead developer of curl (presumably also a few other curl devs)
  • James Fuller

If you do plan on joining and work on/with a distro, feel free to add yourself to the list or email me (Daniel) to let me know. It might ease the planning and make for a better discussion of we have a decent idea of the attendance.

We don't need to list everybody of course. It is entirely voluntary.

Objective

Find out where individuals in the curl project can help improve curl in distributions and how distributions can help out the curl project upstream or even cross-distributions. To identify areas of improvement, ideas, or problems related to curl in distributions. Mutual benefits and cooperation.

Topics

  • What can the curl project do to help distributors more? Build system, third party libraries, documentation, tests, API/ABI etc.
  • Can the curl project do anything to help unload distributors from some of their locally maintained patches?
  • Can the curl project do anything to better streamline the work when we release security advisories for new releases?
  • Can we improve the testing situation upstream/downstream?
  • Can we help each other better with bug reports/issues?
  • After PSL - what else have been missing in distros? Or perhaps: what features do distros actively disable and why?
  • HTTP/3 - updates on status and discussions on how to (possibly) enable this in curl for distros going forward
  • Long term support
  • What do the distros want in the curl roadmap?
  • Post Quantum curl and how to use it
  • the TLS situation

What else?

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