again... serious security hole in a port (dcgui/dclib)

Will Andrews will at csociety.org
Mon Mar 31 06:17:17 PST 2003


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:09:48PM +0300, Dan Naumov wrote:
> Yes, this is indeed, truly unfortunate. As a matter of fact, I've been somewhat
> unsatisfied with the state of the ports tree as of late myself. I am not yet sure
> what I'll be doing about this, but I've considered starting up a "Port Quality
> Watchers" team which would consist of volunteers browsing the ports tree daily
> looking for ways to break things and report them to the right people. It'd also be
> nice if this team had a few port committers on board. This would help speed-up
> things somewhat.

I suppose it might help if we inducted a few more ports
committers once the release is out.  Perhaps along the lines of
folks who enjoy doing exactly this sort of thing.  *hint*  :)

Regards,
-- 
wca


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