Rapid release for security updates

Martin Stransky stransky at redhat.com
Tue May 19 13:25:56 UTC 2015


On 05/19/2015 11:12 AM, drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> is there any mechanism how to speed up release of critical security fixes by
>> Fedora update system?
>>
>> For instance Firefox packages are released *week* after official Mozilla
>> release which is really bad.
>>
>> Any idea here?
>
> Why does it take so long? Most firefox uipdates get enough karma
> before they end up in testing.

I gess there's 2 day delay (one for testing push and one for stable 
push). It also take time to get karma for Fedora 20...

> In that case they should be picked up by the next push (which is still
> a manual process afaik; so no idea how often it happens).
>



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