Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About changing security policy to unCC maintainers when their are not needed

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El jue, 13-09-2012 a las 04:30 +1000, Michael Palimaka escribió:
> On 2012-09-13 03:59, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Currently, package maintainers are CCed to security bugs when their are
> > needed. The problem is that, once maintainers add a fixed version and
> > tell security team they are ok to get it stabilized, maintainers are
> > kept CCed until bug is closed by security team. This usually means
> > getting a lot of mail after some time when security team discuss if a
> > GLSA should be filled or not, if security bot adds some comment... some
> > of that comments are applied to really old bugs that need no action from
> > maintainers.
> >
> > Maybe would be interesting to change the policy to unCC maintainers
> > again when their action is no longer required.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Thanks for your thoughts
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is the policy you describe officially documented, or just current behaviour?
> 

I don't know, at least it's the current behavior, but I don't know if
it's a policy :/

> In KDE and Qt herds for example, we usually just unCC ourselves when 
> we've taken the required action.
> 
> Best regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 



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