Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:57:05PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Reasonable security support requires some degree of cooperation with the
>> current security team. Without that, vulnerabilities notifications won't
>> be available.
> 
> Why can't porters join the security team? Then everyone benefits.

There's a fairly high bar of entry to the security team, for fairly
justifiable reasons. People get very unhappy if advisories are leaked
early, so it's necessary to have complete trust in the people involved.

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