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02-18-2008, 07:44 AM
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 Re: Messages to the security-announce STeve Andre' wrote: >On Wednesday 06 April 2005 17:12, Chris Mika wrote: > > >>announce@ isn't for security announcements, it serves its own purpose. >>If you're suggesting that security announcements were sent out over that >>list, they weren't, check the archives. >> >>Again, OpenBSD seems to be proactive about security with everything >>except alerting admins to patches. >> >> >> >[snip] > >How much time does it take to visit the proper page each day, to check >for yourself? I do that nearly every day, along with looking at the journal, >press stuff and bug reports. > >If it were hard to look for updates, that would be one thing, but it isn't. >Just check a page and you'll know. This doesn't belong on tech, either. > >--STeve Andre' > > > I think what the original poster (and many others, including myself) would like to see is a change to the procedure so that every time a patch goes into the patch branch and shows up in errata.html, an email message is sent out to security-announce. This seems reasonable to me and the only downside I see is the extra time it takes the developers to send out the email (which I would think would be short and similar to the amount of time updating errata.html). This can be compared with the time/traffic/effort of admins to check the errata page. But in the end it is up to the OpenBSD team to decide how to handle this. Chris      |
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