The next trip report comes from hackathon invitee Bernard Spil, who's been upstreaming LibreSSL-related ports fixes and integrating it into other projects.

Hi, my time to chime in on a hackathon report! All of a sudden an email arrives from beck asking me if I'd be interested to attend a LibreSSL focused hackathon in 3 weeks time so we can discuss how LibreSSL is used by other projects. Hell yeah I'm interested! And besides that flattered and a bit scared... It's not daily that you get to meet some "giants" of Open Source. A bit of planning and a train and plane later I meet up with Claudio, Theo and Tonimir at Zagreb airport, Tonimir drives us to the Hack-room and we're off! What ensues is 5 days of hacking. Bob, Joel, Brent and myself primarily on LibreSSL amidst a gang of guys ferociously hacking away at code. The first full day we get a lot of the exchanging of information piece done. I had tried to elicit as much information as possible from the FreeBSD people and projects that make use of LibreSSL but the response was mainly "Mostly works just fine, nothing serious". The upstream projects I interacted with were often extremely sceptical or downright dismissive of including support for LibreSSL, for no good reason one must conclude! During the hackathon, the LibreSSL.org website was updated to contain more information on the lifecycle and support of LibreSSL. This resulted in a patch that's now in code-review for FreeBSD to track the latest stable release to reduce the frequent shlib version bumps to two times per year, and having an additional port for the "Latest and Greatest". The following day I've managed to work on preliminary patching of the FreeBSD ports tree for 2.3.0 with patches from OpenBSD's ports. Meanwhile exchanging info and patches with Stuart for upstream projects. The removal of SSLv3 and SHA-0 surfaces another load of projects with last decade's crypto. This I've continued after the Hackathon and should result in a PC-BSD EDGE release using 2.3.0 in the coming week. The last day was spent working on understanding the build system and trying to replace OpenSSL in FreeBSD base with LibreSSL. LibreSSL builds as part of the base system but building the dependent software runs into some snags that I hope to iron out at EuroBSDcon 2015. I was so caught up in the hackathon that I managed to miss my flight back home by a full day... Once again, a big thanks to all of you for having me! The energy that the team exudes and the intensity of the hackathon was a true inspiration. I've had an awesome time.