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Sorry bro.. I don't have time to answer your questions. I'm on the way |
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out the door, catching a flight later today then I'm taking a mini |
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vacation.. |
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On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:59 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: |
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> Had a conversation with aoz in the hardened IRC room yesterday, |
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> discussing how non-tech types such as I might help the hardened effort; |
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> 1. He suggested that Bugzilla took a lot of time. How could some of that |
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> time be outsource to a non-techie? |
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> 2. We discussed the possibility of incorporating links to white-paper |
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> "status reports" within the current, very-high-quality, |
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> reluctant-to-tamper-with Gentoo http pages. |
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> STM that Gentoo newbies and others simply checking Gentoo Hardened out |
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> first, go first to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/. So that |
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> would be an ideal place to put a link(s) to a white paper summary of |
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> where the project is, and what its next step is. |
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> That white paper could be easily updated by a newbie, helping with the |
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> proof reading!? |
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> 3. IIUC, the current status is to wait for "upstream" (the gcc folks?) |
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> to successfully incorporate ssp into c++ compilations? And also that |
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> with rare exception, little is loss using the older 3.4.6 compiler? |
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> In those rare cases, gcc can be "slotted" so that 3.4.6 would be the |
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> default, but 4.x could be called to duty when 3.4.6 won't work? |
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> Might be useful to note this in the white paper. |
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