Re: Starting point for contributing to debian-security
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:05:43 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mar., 2010-12-21 at 22:52 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Starting january, I think I'll be able to dedicate some time to debian
> > security team.
>
> Ok, so we're now at beginning of january :)
>
> Is there any starting specific point on which help/time would be needed?
> I know a “call for help” is supposed to happen but in the meantime some
> documentation on what is needed and how would help :)
A good place to start is the security tracker's TODO list [0]. Of
particular interest would be triaging and closing out the remaining
issues from 2008 and 2009.
Also, it would be useful to try to start adopting some of the additional
features applied in Ubuntu [1] but not in Debian. The hardest part
there is going to be convincing the gcc maintainers to deviate from
upstream defaults.
Best wishes,
Mike
[0] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/todo
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features
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