Re: Bug#649625: webkit unmaintained security-wise (again)
- To: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
- Cc: Micah Gersten <micah@ubuntu.com>, debian-security@lists.debian.org, Ubuntu Security <security@ubuntu.com>, mrobinson@webkit.org, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>, pkg-webkit-maintainers <pkg-webkit-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>, Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org>
- Subject: Re: Bug#649625: webkit unmaintained security-wise (again)
- From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:52:39 +0100
- Message-id: <20120126185239.GA7930@glandium.org>
- Mail-followup-to: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>, Micah Gersten <micah@ubuntu.com>, debian-security@lists.debian.org, Ubuntu Security <security@ubuntu.com>, mrobinson@webkit.org, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>, pkg-webkit-maintainers <pkg-webkit-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>, Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org>
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:19:52PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 10:03 -0600, Micah Gersten wrote:
> > In Ubuntu, we need to maintain a stable branch of webkitgtk+ for 5 years
> > for our upcoming LTS. That is from Apr 2012 to Apr 2017. We'll be
> > using the webkitgtk+ 1.8 branch since it's the most recent with GTK2 and
> > GTK3 support. I'd like to find other like minded people to help
> > maintain this branch. I assume that if Debian can standardize on 1.8,
> > that would be helpful for 3.5 years or so (6 months until wheezy
> > releases, 2 yrs of stable, 1 yr of old stable). How does this sound to
> > people?
>
> That sounds great to me. Do you have someone in WebKit's security group?
> There are two people nominated but pending approval (Vincent -
> GNOME/SuSE and Josseline - Debian), it would be good to get more distro
> people in there, I think; I'm planning on writing an email asking what
> we could do in order to get those nominations accepted. Would be good to
> have more WebKitGTK+ people in there too, what do you think Martin? =)
FYI, I'm in the WebKit security group, but I don't have time. I should
probably end my membership.
Mike
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