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Re: Please approve python-xmpp



Hi Alexey,

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 08:46:30PM +0400, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> Satturday, 14 May 2005 11:31 Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hello.
> I have corrected list of bugfixes: some were gone as insignigicant, other were 
> upgraded :)
> Really, most of these bug are really serious enough. They were found while 
> developing GUI client based on this library and this client were just not 
> going to release without these fixes.
> So here is new list (bug 307988):

> important: SASL fix. SASL authentication is a standart for xmpp so unability 
> to properly authenticate will have major effect on usability of the library

> important: bugfix in browser module that renders this module dangerous to use 
> and hence greatly affects usability of library for transports

> normal: allows user to detect servers with broken tls implementation and 
> disable tls for them. Very cheap solution that have no impact on the code 
> that is not aware about this feature. I think it is worths to go in sarge
> documentation fixes: docstrings fixes in different modules, examples 
> improvements.

> important: roster fix. Renders roster unsuitable for general use. Greatly 
> affect client scripts that use python-xmpp.

> important: memory leak fix for transports.

> important: hang on big incoming data chunks while working with tls enabled. In 
> fact, this is gate for DoS condition.

> If you feel that this list is [not] ok please let me know - I'll ask my 
> sponsor to upload these/corrected changes to the archive.

The important bugs you list all look important, and the bug you listed as
'normal' looks normal; so please upload with just the important fixes, since
those are the ones allowed by the freeze policy.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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