Rapid release for security updates

[Oden Eriksson]

Andrew Haley skrev den 2015-05-26 12:10:
> 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 repealed.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.

I worked with security updates for Mandriva Linux between 2009 and 2015.

I'm open for a job offer on that topic ;)