On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 09:27:48PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > Now that you have played the distro card (thanks!) here, let me just copy > my comment from LWN where someone suggested "well, it's easy, it's the job > of the [paid] distros to do the triage" ... > > The problem is, that with this new system, paid distros are going to > suffer a big time (with no benefit to anybody at all). We'll have to put a > lot of productive and creative (upstream) work on hold in order to have > enough resources to sort out the havoc that LTS team is apparently going > to create by DoSing the world with a truckload of irrelevant CVEs. My observation is that the old system has had pretty low-quality CVE's, and worse, overly inflated CVE Severity Scores, which has forced all people who are supporting distro and cloud serves which sell into the US Government market to have to do very fast releases to meet FedRAMP requirements. At least once, I protested an overly inflated CVSS score as being completely b.s., at a particular enterprise distro bugzilla, and my opinion as the upstream developer was completely ignored. So quite frankly, at least one enteprise distro hasn't impressed me with avoiding low quality CVE's and high CVSS scores, and so I'm quite willing to give the new system a chance. (Especially since I've been told that the Linux Kernel CVE team isn't planning on issuing CVSS scores, which as far as I'm concerned, is *excellent* since my experience is that they are quite bogus, and quite arbitrary.) - Ted
