From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 3 20:38:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E0A37B502; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e943cfM13104; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 21:38:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id VAA32448; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 21:38:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010040338.VAA32448@harmony.village.org> To: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: How long for -stable [ Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c ] Cc: developers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 19:07:41 PDT." <85378.970625261@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <85378.970625261@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:38:39 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <85378.970625261@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Jordan Hubbard writes: : > Speaking for myself as part of the security team, I don't want to : > support 3.x for security fixes any more, since it's been just too damn : : To me, this is only an argument that you need more help, not that the : fundamental idea of supporting security fixes for 3.x is somehow : unsound. :-) It seems like you essentially agree in your next two : paragraphs anyway, so can we now see a show of hands for "deputies" : who'd be willing to work on back-porting even just security : enhancements to 3.x (and, eventually, 4.x)? Historically, we've had a few people step up to the plate for this and then disappear. I'm doubtful that something like this will work in practice. We had the same debate at the end of life for the 2.x branch and no one offered to fill in the void. Having said that, I would support having someone in the loop as part of the SO team that would do nothing but 3.x support. We can certainly try things out, but my expectations are low. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message