Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:17:09 -0800 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@ofw.fi> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: again... serious security hole in a port (dcgui/dclib) Message-ID: <20030331141709.GZ983@procyon.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <20030331170948.583ced4e.dan.naumov@ofw.fi> References: <20030331132420.0b94c5ae.davide.lemma@sito.it> <20030331170948.583ced4e.dan.naumov@ofw.fi>
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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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