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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: "Alin Năstac" <mrness@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, net-proxy@g.o, qa@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: net-proxy/squid needs your love
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:33:59
Message-Id: 20100804173333.GA19427@Mystical
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: net-proxy/squid needs your love by "Alin Năstac"
1 On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 07:10:28PM +0200, Alin Năstac wrote:
2 > Hi Markos,
3 >
4 > I'm very busy in real life, but I'll try to solve all squid issues this
5 > week.
6 > Btw, [2] and [3] were solved from net-proxy's perspective and [1]
7 > wasn't fixed by upstream AFAIK.
8 >
9 > Cheers,
10 > Alin
11 >
12 Hi
13
14 Thanks for stepping up. If you need more manpower just yell and ask for help from
15 our users. Furthermore, Kerin Millar did an excellent job on bug #311927 so
16 you could work with him ( and co-maintain squid if you want ). That would be
17 the best way imho to keep squid in a good shape :)
18
19 Seems like my post created some noise and squid will move forward soon \o/
20 > On 04/08/2010 13:50, Markos Chandras wrote:
21 > > Hi there
22 > >
23 > > net-proxy/squid needs your love. Bug #311927 and Bug #304751 require a
24 > > version bump. Our user community did an excellent job there providing an
25 > > improved ebuild for that. Furthermore there are several open security
26 > > bugs wrt squid [1][2][3][4]. net-proxy herd what is your status?
27 > > Security bugs should be your first priority. If you are unable to
28 > > maintain certain packages you could ask for help instead of staying
29 > > quiet. Maybe we should list this
30 > > package as maintainer-needed and request some proxy-maintainers from our
31 > > user community. What do you think about that?
32 > >
33 > > @Council: Yet another example that we need to track the status of every
34 > > single project in order to have a clear picture of which projects are
35 > > active and which are dead
36 > >
37 > > @QA: Should step up and commit these ebuilds just to get
38 > > rid of the security bugs which, frankly, don't look that good ( distro
39 > > wise ). I know technically is not our job, but we need to step up here
40 > > and either fix the security bugs since net-proxy can't do that, or mask
41 > > this package which is a no-go.
42 > >
43 > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/261208
44 > > [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/279379
45 > > [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/279380
46 > > [4] http://bugs.gentoo.org/301828
47 > >
48 >
49
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51 Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
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