Chris Gianelloni wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 07:22 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>> Steve Long wrote:
>> > The only question I have, which Stuart also
>> > mentioned, is whether all security updates go thru the GLSA process.
>> 
>> Are you asking if all security updates that are done to the release will
>> have gone through the GLSA process? I'd say the answer is yes, since the
>> only updates that will go in the release tree are security updates from
>> GLSAs :P
> 
> Actually, we would have to review the process, since not everything that
> gets a security bug ends up with a GLSA.  My current loose rule is that
> if it deserves a GLSA, then it deserves and update, but I don't know the
> exact criteria the security team uses to decide if something warrants a
> GLSA or not.
> 
Well, I'm guessing that the bugs are entered and reviewed as security bugs
on some system or another. If so, we can just get the basic list automated
to tie into a script collection.

Who would know what criteria the security people use?


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