On Fri, 18/03/2011 at 10.57 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote: > On 03/18/11 10:33, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, James Carter <jwcart2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> NSA people: How many subscribers are there to this list outside .gov? > >>> > >>> > >> > >> 887 > >> > >> There are 30 people who have posted 10 or more messages in the last > >> year. > > > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Tresys people: How many subscribers to the refpolicy list are outside > >>> .gov? > >> > >> 95 > > > > Any theories as to why are there almost 10* more people on the main list? > > > > It seems to me that policy development is easier to get involved with than all > > other types of SE Linux development, and it's more required. One can do a lot > > of SE Linux work without touching any of the C code, but it's not possible to > > do much outside the distribution defaults without writing some policy. > > My assumption is that most people don't care about all of the policy > maintenance minutiae and don't want to be flooded with the patch emails. > But on the main list you can find out about the development direction > and functionality changes; IMO thats why only ~3% of the subscribers > constitute the majority of the list traffic. It still sounds strange to me. In the very end, what actually implements security is the policy... Regards, Guido -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
