On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Justin Clift wrote: > - Find out from Sir Mordred if he wants to take a look at the CVS > version of code and audit in that for a bit, Just In Case he turns > up something that's serious and requires substantial re-work. > Although it means he wouldn't have a bunch of "I found this existing > exploit" type releases, we could instead offer him credit on the > press release along the lines of "This released has been audited for > security flaws in its code by Sir Mordred". Am pretty sure he'd > do a very thorough job for that, as it means he'd have an official > "product reputation" he'd need to stand by for it.
"Security Relatd Fixed" are applicable for adoption during the beta period, leading up to release ... > - Patches to the CVS tree which let us have a truly native windows > version. This is of huge significance and would *very* much improve > our growth and adoption by being in this release in comparison to > being in the release afterwards. Not in an airy fairy way, but > quite definitely and solidly. If they aren't in by now, they should wait until the next dev cycle ... unless they are *small* changes ... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
