Follow-up on Extended Life Cycle

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Wed Jul 22 13:39:11 UTC 2009


On 07/21/2009 04:14 PM, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Bill Nottingham<notting at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> Greg DeKoenigsberg (gdk at redhat.com) said:
>>>> I'm guessing that this 1 fulltime person in a security response team
>>>> role is to track, monitor, and coordinate the issues that need to be
>>>> addressed. Which in many cases is different from the devel, releng and
>>>> test aspects - necessitating much more than 1 fulltime person's worth
>>>> of work to pull off the broader initiative. Â Right?
>>> In the world of RHEL, this would certainly be true -- but in the world of
>>> Fedora?
>> Note that also there are likely to be *more* issues to track in Fedora
>> than in RHEL; after all, Fedora is much larger.
>
> Is it necessary to go all-or-nothing, or is there a smart and simple
> way to only issue updates for a subset of Fedora's packages (eg. the
> ones that are shipped on the DVD for example)?
>

This is a dead end and is *not* going to happen.

-- Jeroen




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