Proposal

[Joe Holden]

On 09/04/2014 16:17, Walter Hop wrote:
>> In my opinion this issue couldn't have been handled any better considering what it takes to do the job properly, congrats to the security team from me.
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>> -Kimmo
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> Please don’t frame this as criticism of the security people, that’s not fair. Of course we all congratulate them :)
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> I think we’re just interested in discussing what could be improved to improve response time and also make their lives better.
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> Do we need moar Jenkins? Extra build boxes? More cash to keep people on retainer? Resources for training new people? Liaisons with other projects to improve prior notification channels? Etc.
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> FreeBSD ports had a fix after ~4 hours I think, Ubuntu patched their base about an hour later, FreeBSD base took around 24 hours. Not super bad, but I think it’s safe to expect much more scrutiny of security-critical code in the coming years, so it looks like a good time to try to streamline if possible at all.
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> The public attention for this and similar events may also provide a unique window of opportunity for soliciting extra resources from professional users (e.g. via a Foundation campaign).
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24 hours for a fix that doesn't break ABI and is relatively simple (and 
proven to be fine by other distros) is horrendous for such a critical 
problem.  I mentioned this on twitter also, but there wasn't even a 
headsup from the SO until the patch went live.