Hi Torsten and anyone interested, I know this project probably isn't critical for you, but for me it represents a nice opportunity to work on something visible in the broader community. With the limited time I currently have available, that is.
I would love to hear your feedback on my comments. Cheers! Jonathan van Alteren Founding Member | Object Guild B.V. Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations jvalte...@objectguild.com On 8 Sep 2020, 17:10 +0200, Jonathan van Alteren <jvalte...@objectguild.com>, wrote: > Hi Torsten, > > Thanks for your message, those are some good questions/comments. > 1. Looking at the frequency of the last commits on SmalltalkHub, I think I > can step in as maintainer for the moment. Please let me know if you think > something needs to be changed/added to the README to reflect that. > 2. Although I am fine with making it more accessible to the community, I > think it should not be integrated in the Cryptography repository. If I am > correct, the Cryptography packages are a standalone, native implementation of > ASN1 and several cryptography related libraries. Crypto-Nacl is a wrapper for > Libsodium which uses uFFI, and will therefore only support features that > Sodium offers. > > What are criteria for a repository to be placed under the pharo-contributions > organization? > 3. Thanks, I've updated the LICENSE file to add Tony and Hernán. > 4. I changed the name earlier, but decided to revert to the original name in > SmalltalkHub. If a name change is warranted, I think it should be > libsodium-pharo, since the original NaCl library has been superseded by > Sodium and other libsodium bindings follow a similar naming convention (see > https://github.com/search?q=libsodium&type=Repositories) > 5. Of course it would. At the moment, I only migrated the project from > SmalltalkHub, refreshed a small bit of code and enabled smalltalkCI with > GitHub Actions. Currently, you'd need to look at the tests for some examples. > > Any particular examples you would be interested in? Perhaps you can open an > issue with a request. > 6. It might already work on Windows, since the Nacl FFILibrary defines > 'libsodium.dll' as win32 module (library) name. However, I don't currently > run any Windows systems, so that would be a good opportunity for a > contribution. Is that something you can help with? > > Thanks again for the feedback. I'm interested to work on this to gain more > experience with maintaining an open source project, especially since this one > doesn't seem very demanding at the moment. > > Are you familiar with Pieter Hintjens work and ideas on OS software? I find > his C4 model (Collective Code Construction Contract) to be very interesting > and I'm open to trying that out. > > See here for more context: > https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/chapter4.html > (The rest of the book is interesting as well.) > > > Kind regards, > > Jonathan van Alteren > > Founding Member | Object Guild B.V. > Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations > > jvalte...@objectguild.com > On 31 Aug 2020, 17:37 +0200, Torsten Bergmann , wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > > > nice, thanks for investing time and effort into this. Such utilities are > > needed for serious applications. Some thoughts and questions: > > > > 1. What is the mid-term or long-term plan regarding collaboration? Will > > you be able to step in as maintainer? > > > > 2. As it already seems to be authored by several people and contains > > functionality of general interest it should be considered to move it to > > a central community place like > > https://github.com/pharo-contributions[https://github.com/pharo-contributions/Cryptography]/ > > where several people from community have already > > access. It would then be in alignment with > > https://github.com/pharo-contributions/Cryptography[https://github.com/pharo-contributions/Cryptography] > > too and maintenance of > > contributions as well as releases could be done from different sides and > > more centrally. > > > > You and anyone can then regulary fork from the community repo to an > > own (customized) repo like https://github.com/objectguild/Crypto-Nacl > > > > I guess Esteban can add you as contributor to "pharo-contribution" > > organization if you follow that path. > > > > 3. I guess LICENSE file need to be updated to give additionall credit to > > the original authors or mention more general "Pharo community" > > (currently it mentions Object Guild solely) > > > > 4. Can it be changed to use "NaCl" instead of "Nacl" which is more > > suitable name for Sodium (a similar name fixing was done in the Cuis port > > too) > > > > 5. Would it be possible to add some expressions/samples or docu in the > > README for end users on how to use it. This would give people a quick guide > > on how to do things. > > > > 6. Any plans for making it work on Windows too? > > > > Thanks > > Torsten > > > > > > Gesendet: Montag, 31. August 2020 um 09:52 Uhr > > Von: "Jonathan van Alteren" <jvalte...@objectguild.com> > > An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > > Betreff: [Pharo-users] ported and refreshed Crypto-Nacl to GitHub (from StH) > > > > Hi all, > > > > I wanted to let you know that I ported the Crypto-Nacl library from > > SmalltalkHub to GitHub here: > > https://github.com/objectguild/Crypto-Nacl[https://github.com/objectguild/Crypto-Nacl] > > > > The original author is Tony Garnock-Jones, with contributions from Hernán > > Morales Durand. See the README for more details. > > > > Libsodium has evolved a lot over time, which means that there is plenty of > > additional functionality that can be unlocked through this library. I don't > > have a need for it at the moment, but that might change in the near future. > > My interest is in using the cryptographic features to enhance security of > > business applications. > > > > Oh, and thanks to the Buenos Aires Smalltalk team > > (https://github.com/ba-st/[https://github.com/ba-st/]) for inspiration on > > using GitHub Actions with smalltalkCI :-) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Jonathan van Alteren > > > > Founding Member | Object Guild B.V. > > Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations > > > > jvalte...@objectguild.com > >
