On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 03:15:27 +0100 Bart Martens <bart.martens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 02:42, Vincent wrote: > > I agree, the security fixes have been horrid and confusing. I don't expect > > Red Hat to take this problem up as actively as they do for RHEL. > (...) > > I suspect they are > > working on ways to get more community involvement but policies are on the back burner > > at the moment or being worked on at a lower precedence to other issues. When Red Hat > > gets some guidelines together on how and what they want from us I think pieces > > will start coming together. > > So your point is to give rh some time to get things organized. I can > agree on that for the enhancements and the minor bug fixes. But I think > rh should release security updates for rh9 and fc1 simultaneously, as > long as the community has not yet taken over this work. > > Yes but RHEL is thier product so I do not expect them to have FC 1 to be as important to them as RHEL. It encourages mission critical users to pay for a product instead of a free one. Not saying its thier policy, or that its right. Just that its possible and personally if it were true I would not blame them. That is why I think a policy put in place for US to get the errata supplied would be more efficient. Only cause its OUR #1 priority unlike it is to them. (just talking again, sorry if i'm full of it)
