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Re: Call for Jessie Release Goals



On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:15:43PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:06:37PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > On 2013-09-25 19:02, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > > Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org> schrieb:
> > >> Goals which were accepted for the Wheezy cycle, but did not reach
> > >> completion, can be carried over for Jessie. However, we require
> > >> re-submission of those goals (and any that have been discussed up until now
> > >> - we are starting with a clean slate) to ensure that they are still
> > >> realistic and have active developers working on them. We will in principle
> > >> accept carried-over goals which still meet the basic criteria.
> > > 
> > > That applies for the hardening release goal. There's been quite some
> > > progress and things have started to roll on their own, but there's
> > > quite some work todo.
> > > 
> > > So please re-add it for jessie. 
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > >         Moritz
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Is the goal page[1] up to date etc.?  The wiki suggests it has not been
> > updated in the past year.  Are all the advocates from Wheezy still
> > behind it (I took the liberty of CC'ing all of you).
> 
> Most of the tracking happened inside SVN, AFAICS nothing needs to be updated ATM.

I'm still in for it too. I've been working on a comparison of "default
installs" between Debian and Ubuntu, since my graphs of the entire archive
doesn't entirely reflect reality of the more commonly used packages:

http://outflux.net/debian/hardening/debian-hardening-year.png
http://outflux.net/ubuntu/hardening/ubuntu-hardening-year.png

We've got a long way to go still for the archive.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook                                            @debian.org


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