On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:26:37AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The security team has always been a difficult one to expand. A strong level > of trust is necessary due to confidentiality issues, and security support is > a lot of (mostly boring and thankless) work. However, expanding it seems > like the only way to make it sustainable. Even allowing uploads from the secretaries could be helpful. Steve Kemp has done a lot of good work in his role as secretary (much more than I've ever done). In cases where Joey is offline for an extended period of time, having Steve or myself perform uploads might make the most sense. We already have some state WRT the current issues, and have all the same patches that Joey has. It's mostly a matter of coordinating releases with other vendors and making sure that the newly released package has the right changes applied and has a sane version number. Part of the problem with security updates has to do with the fact that it's just difficult to coordinate the work. Even when Wichert, mdz, and others were more active, Joey still did most of the work because it was often easier for one person to keep track of everything. The secretary position was originally created to help this situation, but it was never really clear to me what my role was supposed to be. noah
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