On 05/27/2010 04:44 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Ned Slider wrote:
Alan Bartlettajb@elrepo.org [1] http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=26452&forum=3...
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=26230&forum=...
no pleasing the forum users it seems, and no bugs filed
no bug number, no problem
You are kidding, right? So a Critical Security Update has been available for Firefox for nearly 2 months but we should all stick our heads in the sand and ignore it because no one bothered to file a bug to remind the Project that upstream released a security update. But hey, lets take some collective responsibility here - did no one really notice there are security updates missing for this length of time? There are supposedly ~3 million CentOS users and not one of them thought to file a bug report, including 10 or so core devs.
Out of interest, at what point should a bug report be filed? The moment upstream releases an update? 24hours later? 48 hours? 1 month? How late is late when the policy is when it's ready?
Anyway, here's the bug report for the missing Firefox update:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4342
Perhaps the forums should be shut down, as one off participants will not read the mailing lists and will not file bugs, ** and ** the people purporting to want to manage the forums cannot bring themselves to say: use existing suport machanisms, or file the bugs for people unwilling or unable to do so
The Forums are an existing support mechanism - or at least they have been since at least 2004/5. What looks bad is when those managing the support channels have no clue when the security updates might appear or why they are delayed in the first place.