On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 18:36 -0800, David Rees wrote: > I work weekends and all public holidays here in the states, but have all > Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays off. It would be extremely convenient to me > if FL would only release updates on weekends and holidays, because then > I'll be in the office in case something breaks. > > Insert tongue-in-cheek here. :-P > > It's already been said why restricting release periods is a bad idea, but > I'll say it again. Security updates (the primary reason FL exists) need > to be released ASAP, not when it's convenient for all of its users. > Especially if you are using mirrors which tend to lag behind the primary > for some period of time. It doesn't take much time for a cracker to write > a worm which might take advantage of some exploit, the less time my > systems are vulnerable to attack the better. If you wish to submit your > machines to longer periods of vulnerability, risk your own machines, not > everyone else's too. Yeah, that makes sense too. Well, I guess we'll still release updates as they're ready. Marc.
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