but they deserve a ton of praise for taking on a tough task that no one else was willing to do
There seemed to be some serious momentum behind getting proper resources and financing in place for a real effort that the project deserves, but all of that dissolved when this team started making a lot of sound and fury about their fork of something purportedly "beyond fixing".
Aside from several incidents of spite-driven commits that were simply wrong (and dangerous), it is unfortunate that so many people who worked so hard on such an important project are treated so poorly, everyone rushing to condemn the code as was.
I tend to think the reason that support dissolved was that many people, myself included, think OpenBSD will do a better job of responsible maintenance. I have no good reason to think throwing money at OpenSSL would actually improve anything that matters. Much more likely we'd just get more of what we've been getting.
There seemed to be some serious momentum behind getting proper resources and financing in place for a real effort that the project deserves, but all of that dissolved when this team started making a lot of sound and fury about their fork of something purportedly "beyond fixing".
Aside from several incidents of spite-driven commits that were simply wrong (and dangerous), it is unfortunate that so many people who worked so hard on such an important project are treated so poorly, everyone rushing to condemn the code as was.