On May 31, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Alex Busenius wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> The new mailing list [email protected] was created. All core commiters
> will be on this list.
> 
> This is *not* an announcement list, it is meant for technical
> discussions about security issues.  However, everyone can write to this
> mailing list, e.g. to report security issues (mails will be reviewed by
> the administrator first).
> 
> If somebody else is interested in contributing to discussions on that
> list, he or she should write a mail on the dev-list asking for access.
> If the commiters agree (meaning that nobody is -1 on it, similar to a
> proposal) this person will get access.

We also need to define who can get access. IMO:
- persons who have submitted security issues in jira
- persons who've submitted security patches 
- persons who have been contributing to xwiki for a long time

WDYT?

Thanks
-Vincent

> Alex
> 
> 
> On 05/26/2010 01:02 PM, Alex Busenius wrote:
>> Hello devs,
>> 
>> 
>> I propose to introduce a security mailing list ([email protected]) to
>> discuss details of security issues.
>> 
>> This list should be private, with only committers and trusted
>> contributors having read and write access. Anyone who proved his good
>> intentions on the dev-list and bug tracker should be able to get access
>> to security-list through the usual vote procedure.
>> 
>> The purpose of this list is to give a safe place to discuss details open
>> security issues without giving all script kiddies in the world examples
>> to write exploits. The discussions should be kept on this private list
>> until the corresponding fix is released.
>> 
>> WDYT?
>> 
>> 
>> Alex
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