[CentOS-devel] progress?
Florian La Roche
Florian.LaRoche at gmx.net
Wed Feb 23 12:39:16 UTC 2011
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 04:52:47PM -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
> > CentOS may have lost 1 of its vendor-sec representatioves,
> > but its a role that can be re-filled.
>
> Not sure what is meant there, but the vendor-sec process has
> been relatively quiet of late. Some updates ... thinking here
> of the recent OpenJDK set ... never passed on that list as to
> a co-ordinated release date. The real problem in CentOS'
> presence there is that as the project intentionally 'chases
> the tail-lights' to follow the upstream, warts and all, we
> rarely have anything to offer in the vendor-sec list
The time to exchange on security issues is for sure much higher
than the efford to recompile rpms again for CentOS.
I think having CentOS presence there is still the right thing
as the whole point of vendor-sec is to build a small group where
information is shared, knowing that most people more read from this
than actually contribute.
best regards,
Florian La Roche
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