Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: creffett@g.o
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding long delays on GLSA generation
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:12:22
Message-Id: 20140118161211.A87B4E0B76@pigeon.gentoo.org
1 Oops, didn't send to @-dev.
2
3 On Jan 18, 2014 10:58 AM, creffett@g.o wrote:
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5 > Short version since I'm on my phone: we're working on reducing the number of fields, can't really auto generate, current blocker is getting two additional devs (beyond the author) to sign off on the GLSA. We are aware of the issues. You could have just asked the team this, not sure why this needed to go to @-dev.
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7 > creffett
8 >
9 > On Jan 18, 2014 10:34 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
10 >>
11 >> Was looking to existing gedit bug reports and I found:
12 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257004
13 >>
14 >> That is only one more example of a really old bug report still opened
15 >> and waiting for a GLSA. Was wondering what really causes this long
16 >> delays, can't GLSA be done automatically? Would a GLSA even have any
17 >> sense for cases like this (after 5 years)
18 >>
19 >> Thanks for your help
20 >>
21 >>