Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:34:47 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a policy to delay & batch errata security alerts ? Message-ID: <201508311235.t7VCYm3c005189@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:38:36 -0400." <alpine.GSO.1.10.1508291235450.26829@multics.mit.edu>
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Hi, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Presumably there's no delays eg for PR, giving longer quiet periods before > > a release, slipping out bad news immediately after good. > > That seems highly unlikely. Hope so. Just considering what might add to floods. > > What else might be causing batch flooding of alerts ? > > It's an awful lot of work to actually put all the pieces together to > release security advisories; Sure, realised :-) > batching reduces the workload for the team. Batching for a common lib or tool, Yes. But alerting pre existing issues just after new releases will reduce security for all who can't spare enough time, so must skip the flood. > This is true no matter what project you look at, be it FreeBSD or MIT > Kerberos (where I am on the security team and can speak from personal > experience) or something else. This is why errata notices are delayed > until they can go out with a security advisory; it's explicitly a way to > reduce the workload on the security team. There were 5 Errata & 3 Advisories with Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org after 13 Aug 2015 announcement of 10.2-RELEASE. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com Reply after previous text, like a play - Not before, which looses context. Indent previous text with "> " Insert new lines before 80 chars. Send plain text, Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not ms.doc, Not base64. Subsidise contraception V. Global warming, pollution, famine, migration.
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