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<B>Thomas Backlund</B>
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<PRE>Michael Scherer skrev 15.6.2011 15:10:
><i> Le mercredi 15 juin 2011 à 07:55 -0400, Stew Benedict a écrit :
</I>>><i> On 06/12/2011 08:25 AM, Angelo Naselli wrote:
</I>>>><i> In data mercoledì 8 giugno 2011 23:53:51, Ahmad Samir ha scritto:
</I>>>>>>><i> Right, I probably phrased that one wrongly; I meant:
</I>>>>>>><i> fixes a serious bug, e.g. crashing, segfaulting
</I>>>>>><i> I don't think we should exclude non-serious bugs :)
</I>>>>><i> Depends, overworking the sec team doesn't look like a good aspect...
</I>>>>><i> (that's why I liked contrib in mdv, I could push an update any time,
</I>>>>><i> without having to go though the bug report -> QA -> Sec team loop).
</I>>>><i> Well here we could stop at QA team step, or at least someone more that can
</I>>>><i> test and say that the fixing is good...
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i> So,
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> We've had a lot of discussion, which is good, but imho we need to start
</I>>><i> getting some updates out the door. Users are asking for them and the
</I>>><i> CVEs just keep rolling in.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> As I understand it, the mechanics are in place to issue updates, and
</I>>><i> I've put together a page as a first pass at a policy, based on my memory
</I>>><i> of how things worked in the past and what I've picked up from the
</I>>><i> discussion.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy</A>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Randomly, I'm targeting 2 bugs to push through, to test the process:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1084">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1084</A> (vde2, app crashes)
</I>>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521</A> (subversion, security issue)
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Now, first problem is we still don't have a maintainer database, so who
</I>>><i> gets the assignment, the person that first imported the package?
</I>>><i> Perhaps this is the first change to the policy - maintainer or any
</I>>><i> interested packager initiates the update
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Sound sensible, yes.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The idea IMHO is not to prevent people for doing the work if they wish,
</I>><i> but if there is no volunteer, it should be the duty of someone, and this
</I>><i> someone is the maintainer.
</I>><i> Now, we do not have a official maintainer db, but the test instance is
</I>><i> still here afaik. So yes, picking someone from the list of person that
</I>><i> committed would do the trick.
</I>><i>
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BTW, should we have a read-only security/update-announce ml that where
we mail about all updates ?
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Thomas
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