Disturbing lack of FE security updates announcements!

[Luke Macken]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:20:41PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> 
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 November 2006 10:38, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> The problem I'm trying to address here is that there is no way for end
> >> users to find out about FE package updates which are security related. This
> >> is BAD, hence my suggestion to ask maintainers to send a security update
> >> announcement (in a predefined format / template) to
> >> fedora-packages-announce when there is a security related update of an FE
> >> package they (the maintainers) maintain.
> > 
> > Luke Macken, and others of the infrastructure group, are working on a tool 
> > that will facilitate this, and take the guess work out of much of the 
> > formatting and the manual bug closing, etc...
> > 
> > 
> 
> GOOD! ETA?

Soon.  This is going to be my top priority in about a week.

There are screenshots of the current update system that I wrote a couple
of summers ago on the wiki[0], and some notes for the new system.

I checked in the first bits of the new version into cvs today.  It
doesn't do much, but it defines the database model and a few
controllers, and lots of TODO comments.

If anyone is interested in helping out with this project, please let me
know.  I will be laying out some detailed tasks in the near future that
people can work on.

luke


[0]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UpdatesSystem