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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Pre-GLEP: Security Project
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 22:12:11
Message-Id: 5d2f29a7-c2c3-a1ba-a76b-f03454e26075@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Pre-GLEP: Security Project by Alexis Ballier
1 On 03/12/2017 11:05 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
2 >> The severity levels and timelines are already defined in the
3 >> referenced vulnerability treatment policy. We might be able to
4 >> incorporate this suggestion by stronger reference to that for
5 >> timeline, but in the end that should be the internal policy anyways.
6 >
7 > To me, this is the only thing that is *not* internal here.
8 >
9 > You have a target delay X. What happens after X expires ? After 2X ?
10 > 10X ? When is it right for sec. team to intervene ? When is it right
11 > for sec. team to intervene after maintainer has asked for a delay ? When
12 > is it right for sec. team to intervene against maintainer wishes ?
13 >
14 > I'm pretty sure you have a good idea of when sec. team should act, and
15 > you're right in the sense that severity analysis does not belong to the
16 > GLEP, but something referencing your treatment policy and explicitly
17 > stating in the GLEP that (any member of) sec. team is allowed to take
18 > action after some multiple (possibly one) of the target delay would be
19 > more clear and avoid entirely having the lead to take a decision every
20 > time.
21
22 makes sense, will try to write up some more info on this in GLEP, while
23 still referencing the vulnerability treatment policy for the actual
24 information as that needs to be possible to update from time to time.
25
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