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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:02:19 +0200
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: accepting new members to (linux-)distros lists

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:11:26PM -0700, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> > This leaves administrative task 10 with no primary yet, though:
> >
> > 10. Monitor relevant public channels (mailing lists, code repositories,
> > etc.) and inform the reporter and the list in case an issue is made
> > public prematurely (that is, leaks or is independently rediscovered) -
> > primary: vacant, backup: Amazon
> >
> > Does this mean Amazon will be taking care of it until we find a primary?
> > Or only in cases when no other distro (visibly) does?
> >
> > Ideally, a distro should volunteer to be primary for that task now, so
> > that Amazon wouldn't have to volunteer for more than they offered.
> 
> I don't mind making us primary here.  I don't think backup/primary
> really matter for this one the more folks doing this the better.

Thanks.  Amazon is now primary for this task.  I agree this doesn't
require coordination except possibly to avoid duplicate work, so
multiple other distros are welcome to contribute to this task as well.

Alexander

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