Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

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On 1/30/20 3:19 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:26:56PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
>> Here is an initial (albeit randomly generated) proposal of X and Y:
>>
>> severity   CRITICAL/HIGH     MEDIUM      LOW
>>     X             2             4         6
>>     Y             2             4         6
> 
> In RHEL, low impact security bugs wouldn't normally be fixed until the
> next minor release, which would be 6-12 months after the issue is
> reported.  I don't think it's valuable to badger packagers about bugs
> that have "minimal consequences" to use the terminology from
> 
> https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification

There are various reasons why lows are not fixed immediately in RHEL,
including the fact that customers dont like too many updates because of
production systems downtime. Not all of them may be applicable for
fedora users.

The above being said, i am ok with deferring lows, but please lets fix
or close others?
> 
> Rich.
> 


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