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

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 08:40:57AM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
> 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?

Yes, what I said above only applies to low impact bugs, in case
it wasn't clear.

Rich.

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