[Secure-testing-team] update on issuing advisories

Neil McGovern neilm at debian.org
Fri Aug 26 21:42:59 UTC 2005


On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:33:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I think all the peices are in place now for issueing advisories. I want
> to put together advisories for as many of the worse holes in testing as
> we can over this weekend, and go through the full procedure of getting
> them built, available, and posting the advisories to -announce, before we
> make a big announcement (draft in doc/announce.2) about the new list and
> the advisories. The announcement will have pointers to the advisories
> we've issued so far. Hopefully this will work out the kinks before we
> get slammed with users.
> 
> Of the items left on the TODO list, the main things to be done are:
> 
>   - Need a way for team members to hint packages from etch-proposed-updates
>     to etch on secure-testing-master. Hint files similar to those used by
>     release team?
> 
>   - Web display of DTSAs.
> 
>   - Better integrate DTSAs into checklist script, so it stops listing holes
>     that have had a DTSA issued.
> 
>   - Auto moderation of developer signed mails to -announce.
> 
> I plan to work on the first of these. The web display of the DTSAs is
> something it would be really nice to have for users, so if someone wants
> to do that, that would be great.
> 

Something very simple knocked up at http://www.halon.org.uk/tmp/test.php

Is something like this what's needed?

Neil
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