[PATCH 1/4] docs: securityprocess: Don't claim that we have maint branches

Michal Prívozník mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed Mar 9 09:47:45 UTC 2022


On 3/9/22 10:09, Peter Krempa wrote:
> The 'Branch fixing policy' paragraph claims that we have at least one
> actively maintained stable branch which isn't currently the case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/securityprocess.rst | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/securityprocess.rst b/docs/securityprocess.rst
> index adddbf76b0..fe64e94f80 100644
> --- a/docs/securityprocess.rst
> +++ b/docs/securityprocess.rst
> @@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ engineers on the security team.
>  Branch fixing policy
>  --------------------
> 
> -The libvirt community maintains one or more stable release branches at any given
> -point in time. The security team will aim to publish fixes for GIT master (which
> -will become the next major release) and each currently maintained stable release
> -branch. The distro maintainers will be responsible for backporting the
> +The security team will publish fixes for GIT master (which will become the next
> +major release). The distro maintainers will be responsible for backporting the
>  officially published fixes to other release branches where applicable.

Yeah, we don't really do that, but removing is looks too harsh. Maybe
mention that we might create a maint branch? OTOH, a crasher we had
wasn't serious enough for us to create a maint branch:

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2022-March/228906.html

So in the end, off it goes.

Michal



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