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List:       oss-security
Subject:    Re: [oss-security] Advisory dates
From:       Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des () des ! no>
Date:       2013-04-25 12:11:05
Message-ID: 86txmustd2.fsf () ds4 ! des ! no
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Kurt Seifried <kseifried@redhat.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > I'm curious as to what kind of policies various distros have in
> > place wrt release dates for advisories.  We (FreeBSD) have a list
> > of dates to avoid, which include major religious holidays, New
> > Year's Day etc., and try to avoid releasing advisories on or
> > immediately before these dates.  [...]
> Ultimately if we start scoring off major holidays we've have no
> release dates left ;)

True, so we have to strike a balance.  The problem is that we've caught
a lot of flak in the past for releasing advisories during or immediately
prior to public holidays.  Maybe our users are more argumentative than
yours :)

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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