[CentOS-devel] Re: a centos SECURITY] Security Errata Pages (fwd)

John Newbigin

jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au
Wed Jun 8 23:41:12 UTC 2005


Lance Davis wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, R P Herrold wrote:
> 
> 
>>This guy may be a mirror candiate, and also seems to be 
>>willing to spend some money as a donation equivalent to 
>>license fees.
>>
>>How shall we solicit him?
> 
> 
> we need a db / web i/f for the devs to post errata 
> 
> this has been discussed previously.
> 
> It will impose standards and at the same time update web page and email .
> 
> Just need a volunteer to code it :)
I am willing to work on this.

John.

> 
> Regards
> Lance
> 
> 
>>- R
>>
>>
>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 01:47:08 +0200
>>From: "Ronald Dolfsma, MP2" <ronald at mp2.nl>
>>To: security at centos.org
>>Subject: a centos SECURITY] Security Errata Pages
>>
>>LS,
>>
>>I noticed that the Security Errata pages haven't been updates since 2005/2/3
>>although they were read very well i think. Is there a chance that they will
>>be posted again on a regular basis, for example when errata are available?
>>That looks more professional i think. Also, the errata part of the main page
>>is not utilised yet. I am convinced that in today's, security driven
>>community of semi-professional or professional linux admins, such things are
>>necessary. Even if the updates are available, without the proper marketing
>>nobody will know that you put so much effort in reacting promptly to
>>available updates that are repackaged and released for CentOS.
>>
>>Great product by the way; wil definitely donate if we keep using CentOS
>>instead of RHEL. Someone's gotta pay the bills :-)
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Ronald Dolfsma
>>---
>>MP2 Webhosting
>>http://www.mp2.nl
>>
>>
> 
> 


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John Newbigin
Computer Systems Officer
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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