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Re: tracker CVE feed source



On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 06:24:19 am Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi Gerfried,
>
> * Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> [2008-08-04 22:11]:
> > * Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> [2008-08-04 21:01:18 CEST]:
> > > * Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> [2008-08-04 20:16]:
> > > > We have the following options:
> > > > - Keep the current feed.
> > > >   It works. But, it's only updated a few times a week, but this may
> > > > get more often in the future.
> > >
> > > While I agree that this may be bad because we get some of
> > > the vulnerabilities later I also see a good thing in this.
> > > This way we don't have to work on this every day but are
> > > able to work on bigger chunks every now and then which may
> > > be better unless we have more active people working on new
> > > CVE ids.
> >
> >  I don't follow that reasoning. Even if the stuff gets in more timely it
> > doesn't mean that they would have to get processed more timely than they
> > are processed currently. If you feel like working on bigger chunks feel
> > free to let it pile up like it's done through the way it's received. I
> > see much bigger advantages with changing it than what might be
> > considered a good thing in this...
>
> Yes but then there is also no advantage doing it the other
> way. But maybe you are right and it would be slightly better
> as those issues show up in the TODO section of the tracker
> so people can see that these issues are already "known".
I'd rather let them stay in the tracker as TODO items. It is the easiest entry 
point for new contributors, plus I have to say that a big chunk of TODO items 
(and doing a lot of NFU checking) is quite often demotivating (personally 
speaking).

Cheers
Steffen

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