On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 3:59 PM Robbie Harwood <rharw...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Not replying to anyone in particular but to the thead as a whole...
> >
> > 1. Nothing in the packager introduction process prepares a packager
> > for what to do when they get a CVE filed against one of their
> > packages. I found the whole ordeal rather stressful.
>
> Agreed, this would be good to spell out.
>
> > 4. I'm not a C/C++ programmer
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why is being a C/C++ programmer
> relevant to fixing security bugs?  Are you packaging programs in a
> language you don't speak?

Yes, I do that all the time. It's how I learn new things.

It's already intimidating for a new Fedora user to become a "Fedora
developer". Let's make that funnel of users->contributors wider.

- Ken
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