Re: Updates Politics Proposal

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:08:33PM -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> > >To be fair, it's basically what I've been pretty regularly saying the
> > >policy is. So some of the blame there rests with me. As I see it, open
> > >the door to "critical" non-security bugs is a problem, because it puts
> > >us in the situation of having to decide what's critical and what's not
> > >-- a more subjective determination than "is this a security flaw".
> See the FAQ.  The very first FAQ entry ever created addresses the issue
> of what we support.

Yeah. I guess specifically, given the limited resources we have (for
example, I have 0 spare time -- *sigh*), I've been reading "In order to
publish security updates in a timely manner, security updates have a higher
priority than any other updates" extremely strictly.

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