[Xen-devel] Possible improvement to Xen Security Response Process

2016-12-05 Thread Matthew Allen
According to https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/ we are in the middle of 4 consecutive Tuesdays of security announcements: XSA-19[1-8] on Nov. 22, XSA-201 Nov. 29, XSA-199 Dec. 6 and XSA-200 Dec. 13. The present security policy does not encourage batching of XSAs and I would like us to consider refining

Re: [Xen-devel] Possible improvement to Xen Security Response Process

2016-12-06 Thread Matthew Allen
On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 11:24 -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, Jan Beulich wrote: > > >>> On 05.12.16 at 15:17, wrote: ... > > > Obviously, some issues are discussed in public before the security > > > impact is realised (such as XSA-201); equally, the right to set > > > a di

Re: [Xen-devel] Possible improvement to Xen Security Response Process

2016-12-12 Thread Matthew Allen
On Wed, 2016-12-07 at 16:23 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > ... > I have an alternative concrete suggestion: > > Unless there are good reasons to diverge, our suggestions to > discoverer(s) will be based on the following criteria, in order of > precedence: > 1. Avoiding disclosure on Fridays, week