> Needless to say, OpenSSL is looking for contributors. Beyond contributing patches, interested developers can test the pre-releases, report bugs, and help to close bugs. The presenters concluded by saying that they would like users to get in touch, especially those who are distributing OpenSSL further downstream.
... and just a few days later they closed ~ 150 bugs, some with patches attached, "because they were too old":
That was something else that irked me in the article, where they decry the small $2,000 a year they receive in donations; but they don't address how much their commercial support contracts[1] bring in. OpenSSL seems to be both an open source project and a cottage industry all wrapped in one.
[1] https://www.openssl.org/support/contracts.html