Bug#312413: ITP: serendipity -- PHP Weblog/Blog software

2005-06-14 Thread Penny Leach

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Hi, Moritz,

on 8/6/05 11:07 PM Moritz Muehlenhoff said the following:
| Plus a disturbing constant flow of security vulnerabilities; eight
alone for
| 2005. Do they have a clear policy of documenting issues or do they only
| provide new releases without documenting the vulnerabilities? (This would
| make support for a stable release close to impossible).

Fair question,  from a discussion on their dev mailing list [1,2]:

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Security issues are documented in both our NEWS file (aka ChangeLog) and
announced publically after the fix has been committed. Any other way
would really  be bad for any end-users as we do not want them to be
unaware of outstanding bugs in old releases.

Of course, this is already much, and we"re very sorry about this. But if
you look at the security trackers you will see that many, many
web-applications have had similar bugs in 2005. This seems to be the
year of many people testing XSS.

Look at WordPress, they have had similar problems. But we take our
security problems serious, and for errors that come to our attention we
have provided fixes in less than 12 hours in the past.
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They also have a security section on their blog [3] with an RSS feed I
can subscribe to.

In addition, they maintain a stable branch in their svn tree [4], which
just gets bug & security fixes.  So identifying relevant security
patches should be quite trivial as I can pick them from this branch
rather than trying to find them from within the trunk.


I hope this is somewhat reassuring.

Cheers
Penny



1:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7468268&forum_id=31275

2:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7473550&forum_id=31275

3: http://blog.s9y.9rg/

4: http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/serendipity/
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Bug#312413: ITP: serendipity -- PHP Weblog/Blog software

2005-06-12 Thread Peter Samuelson

[Penny Leach]
> PHP blog with all the common features (comments,track/pingbacks,RSS)
> plus cool extras:Click'n' blog admin,extensible event-driven plugin
> API,easy styling, multiuser,image management,static pregeneration and
> a nifty installer: unpack, open in browser!

So nice to mention how cool the installer is in the debian package
description.  If it didn't have such a slick installer people might
want to install it using aptitude.


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Bug#312413: ITP: serendipity -- PHP Weblog/Blog software

2005-06-08 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Penny Leach wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> * Package name: serendipity
>   Version : 0.8.1 
>   Upstream Author : Jannis Hermanns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.s9y.info/
> * License : BSD
>   Description : PHP Weblog/Blog software
>
>
> PHP blog with all the common features (comments,track/pingbacks,RSS)
> plus cool extras

Plus a disturbing constant flow of security vulnerabilities; eight alone for
2005. Do they have a clear policy of documenting issues or do they only
provide new releases without documenting the vulnerabilities? (This would
make support for a stable release close to impossible).

Cheers,
Moritz


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Bug#312413: ITP: serendipity -- PHP Weblog/Blog software

2005-06-07 Thread Penny Leach
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name: serendipity
  Version : 0.8.1 
  Upstream Author : Jannis Hermanns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.s9y.info/
* License : BSD
  Description : PHP Weblog/Blog software


PHP blog with all the common features (comments,track/pingbacks,RSS)
plus cool extras:Click'n' blog admin,extensible event-driven plugin
API,easy styling, multiuser,image management,static pregeneration and a
nifty installer: unpack, open in browser!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)


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