On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 2:33 PM Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rap...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 01:52:19PM +0200, Marta Rybczynska wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've been working recently on collecting what works and what doesn't
> > in YP security processes. The goal is to go forward and define an
> > actionable strategy!
> >
> > Today, I'd like to share with you the summary of what I have heard as
> > needs from several people (those in Cc:).
> >
> > I want the community to comment and tell us what you find important
> > and what you'd like to see added or changed from this list.
>
> Since most users take poky reference distro and combine it with a number
> of open source and closed source BSP and other meta layers and build
> systems to produce SW for products, they also need documentation and tooling
> so that they can replicate the Yocto Project security processes and use the
> available tools.

Do you also mean that we should make sure Poky follows security best practices?

Noted the point on documenting the way process works/will work so other teams
can extend it to their layer.

>
> I think most of the documentation around the tools and processes is in place 
> already.
> Having maintained and shipped from a non-maintained poky branch, I can just 
> say
> thank you to all who participated in the upstream work to get security 
> vulnerability
> detection and fixing possible!
>
Out of curiosity, what have you backported? cve-check? LTS work?

> That being said, extending the CVE scanning and status tracking work to 
> include more
> open source layers would be nice both for the maintainers and for the users 
> of those
> layers. Using some random old branch of meta-foo may not be so safe. Maybe add
> this data to layer-index?
>

We have Yocto Project Compatible already. Do we need something else?

Cheers,
Marta
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