Rapid release for security updates

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue May 26 10:10:46 UTC 2015


On 19/05/15 16:20, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Martin Stransky wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> The "update stability policies" enforced by Bodhi simply need to be 
> repealed. This problem simply did not exist when maintainers were still 
> trusted to be able to do their job.

Or maybe we should modify them for urgent security updates rather than
repeal them totally.  We certainly have delays with Java security
updates on Fedora.  Something needs to be done, but I'm not sure
exactly what.

Andrew.


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