On 26 October 2010 07:19, Miklos Vajna <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 04:40:53PM +1000, "Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz)" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I agree with the "policy" that updates should fix only security >> issues. Perhaps when we are satisfied that we are resolving security >> issues in 'stable', we could consider applying patches to fix major >> (but not critical) package faults? > > Let's deal with that once the security part is there.
That's what I meant, although perhaps I added too many words. :P >> Fabien and others, I know that my production schedule for newsletters >> is irregular but I'm willing to help as best I can with security >> issues. Perhaps I could help reading the security mailing lists and >> publishing FSAs? My technical knowledge is poor, so I may not be much >> help in applying patches to packages. > > To be honest, the technical part applies to the mailing list reading and > FSA writing as well - but more to the point, that requires time, so I > would suggest just focusing on the wonderful contribution you already > do - the nice spelling improvements and the lovely newsletters. :) OK. I feel that I'm not doing enough for Frugalware, given the incredible effort by many of the other developers/contributors. Of course there are many areas in which I could improve my efforts, so I'll focus on those first. >> I would like to help so that each stable release gets security patches >> for longer than 6 months. > > That's a nice idea - I would say first let's get back to the quality > what we had when voroskoi@ was active, once we have that, we can think > about providing longer support. I agree. It's best that we again put a man on the moon instead of aiming for a mission to Mars. (I thought some of you might appreciate a space analogy. :) ). May you always be Frugal, Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz) _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
