[oi-dev] Security Work

[Colin Ellis]

Sure, I can help fill in the missing info if you want.

/Colin

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Guido Berhoerster <gber at openindiana.org>wrote:

> * Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com> [2011-01-24 14:05]:
> > On the wiki page I still need to fill in their version and
> > consolidation, and update the security issues page for them - if
> > anyone else would like to help me do that, let me know (I'd
> > appreciate it).
>
> The list looks ok, please keep leaf packages and dependencies in
> separate tables, that'll make it easier to extend/reduce the list
> in the future.
>
> > At the moment our staffing numbers to maintain this are quite low
> > and as such it's a lot of work. But as the saying goes, "many hands
> > make light work".
> >
> > So I'd like to ask if anyone would object to me posting to
> > OpenIndiana-Discuss asking for security volunteers? We'll need to
> > ensure we get trustworthy people capable of helping rather than
> > hindering.
> >
> > I'm thinking volunteers would be best served by having a mentor, and
> > that we should group the software together by consolidation.
> >
> > We may want to write a job spec and split it into two parts - one
> > "Monitoring and Alerting", for less technical people, and the other
> > "Patching and building" for those who can learn to build
> > consolidations.
> >
> > I'd appreciate feedback.
>
> I would agree that we take contributions but have them reviewed
> by one or two "core developers", after a certain amount of time
> and good quality contributions people can become themselves
> reviewers.
>
> --
> Guido Berhoerster
>
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