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From: Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Ideas for projects...
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:20:24
Message-Id: eoerlr$62f$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects... by Daniel Drake
1 Daniel Drake wrote:
2 > Construction of a dynamic website for tracking kernel security issues.
3 > There are too many of them and too many kernels to do this through the
4 > normal GLSA process, and currently users are kept in the dark about
5 > fixed security issues.
6 Who put's up the "fixed security issues"?
7
8 >
9 > Tim had started developing a site for this ("KISS") but it was never
10 > finished and had the large downside that it relies upon an operator
11 > duplicating lots of information from bugzilla and the ebuild tree into
12 > KISS.
13 >
14 > Such a system would be able to automatically pull a large proportion of
15 > the required information relatively easily. It would offer functionality
16 > to allow users to sign up for security announcements and fixes for their
17 > kernel(s) of choice, as well as feeding the same info into a mailing
18 > list for all kernels.
19
20 If you can put it thru repoman (or some other script) it can be automated.
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