[Mageia-dev] Security updates - Help needed (also forgot avidemux and gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg)

Fri Jul 6 00:34:25 CEST 2012

On Thu, 05 Jul 2012, Claire Robinson wrote:
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+> These recent attacks are causing even more work for us, which again helps 
+> nobody, and diverts our attention away from where it is really needed. Also 
+> I would point out that having to validate the same package several times 
+> obviously lessens the amount of time we can spend elsewhere, which 
+> compounds the problem.
+
+A disagreement is not an attack.
+
+>
+> If the current situation is indeed such an intolerable issue then perhaps 
+> we should think seriously if we currently have the resources to maintain 
+> two active releases or rethink our ability to open backports, instead of 
+> bullying those who are already stretched too thinly.
+
+If there is too much workload, a solution is to provide only limited
+support and stop trying to fix all bugs with stable updates: only
+important security issue and critical bugs are fixed with an update, all
+other bugs are fixed in Cauldron only. This is what is done in most
+other distributions.
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