Re: [all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-31 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi, Now that all candidates have had their chance for comment, let me just take the liberty to add my views to this. Op dinsdag 19 maart 2013 23:52:57 schreef Jérémy Bobbio: > Even if a dedicated team is supposed to care about security in > testing [1], the dedicated mailing-list [2] has not see

Re: [all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-28 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-03-19 16:52, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Even if a dedicated team is supposed to care about security in testing [1], the dedicated mailing-list [2] has not seen an announcement since February 2011. Debian Security Advisories don't only comment on the stable for stable -- looking through rec

Re: [all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/03/13 at 23:52 +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Hi! > > Lucas wrote in his plateform: > > For example, we have been providing a fairly good rolling release for > almost 13 years with testing, but we totally fail at advertising it as > something supported and usable by end users. > > Eve

Re: [all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-23 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Arno Töll: > On 19.03.2013 23:52, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > Given that our security support for stable is already not as best as > > it could be, do you think we should encourage volunteers to be more > > active in security support for testing? > > With due to respect, I disagree. From a user's pers

Re: [all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-23 Thread Gergely Nagy
Jérémy Bobbio writes: > Dear candidates, do you think it would be wise to advertise `testing` as > a usable distribution to our users given that state of affairs? Given > that our security support for stable is already not as best as it could > be, do you think we should encourage volunteers to b

Re: [all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-22 Thread Arno Töll
On 19.03.2013 23:52, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Given > that our security support for stable is already not as best as it could > be, do you think we should encourage volunteers to be more active in > security support for testing? With due to respect, I disagree. From a user's perspective who occasi

Re: [all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-20 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, March 19, 2013 23:52, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Do you have ideas on how to attract more volunteers to the dull, hard, > and sometimes boring tasks of taking care of security issues in Debian? Perhaps it would be useful if we tried not to scare people away with mischaracterizations that the w

[all candidates] Advertising testing and security support

2013-03-19 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Hi! Lucas wrote in his plateform: For example, we have been providing a fairly good rolling release for almost 13 years with testing, but we totally fail at advertising it as something supported and usable by end users. Even if a dedicated team is supposed to care about security in testing