Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen-users] Security disclosure process discussion update

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/05/13 16:37, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 16:31 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On 24/04/13 12:02, George Dunlap wrote:
> > > On 19/04/13 20:41, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 15:13 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 14:05 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> > > > > > On 15/04/13 15:55, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > > > > Asking them to setup xen-security-team@xxxxxxxxxx seems a bit of a
> > > > > > > burden
> > > > > > I'm just curious, is it really that much of a burden?  If Debian, for
> > > > > > example, already has infrastructure to accept
> > > > > > "<package>@packages.debian.org", how much extra work is it to add
> > > > > > "<package>-security@xxxxxxxxxx"?
> > > > > For just one $package its probably still a moderate amount of work. I
> > > > Ian J pointed out to me IRL that this is the sort of thing alioth (the
> > > > Debian Source/FusionForge instance) ought to be able to provide and I
> > > > can see an interface which purports to allow me to create a private list
> > > > on there (but I've not tried it).
> > > >
> > > > Not sure about other distros but this seems to solve it for Debian at
> > > > least.
> > > How about the following:
> > >
> > > The addition of individual e-mail addresses for
> > >          an organization in addition to the organizational e-mail address
> > >          will be considered in exceptional circumstances; for example, if
> > >          the maintainer for the xen package is not on the organization's
> > >          security e-mail list, and either maintaining a separate list or
> > >          having those on the list act as an intermediary would be too
> > >          onerous.
> > Ping?
> Sorry, thought I'd replied.
>
> Given that Ian J has pointed me to Alioth private lists I'm no longer
> concerned about this from Debian's PoV. I don't really know if this is
> going to be an issue for other distros or not -- I suppose I'm inclined
> to feel that if Debian can manage it so can they.
OK -- and in any case that's kind of a separate issue from the big one, 
which is allowing more people to be on the list.
Thanks,
 -George

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