Separate SELinux stuff from the Security Guide?

Barbora Ančincová bancinco at redhat.com
Mon Sep 15 16:14:53 UTC 2014


On 15.9.2014 17:59, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 05:36:28PM +0200, Barbora Ančincová wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've been thinking, since the trend seems to be to have smaller, specialized
>> guides, such as the Firewall guide, I would like to propose to separate
>> SELinux-related chapters from the Security Guide as it is in RHEL and as it
>> was in Fedora too. One good reason for doing so is that huge guides are
>> difficult to maintain and also to navigate (Deployment Guide was a great
>> example). And there is a lot of content in RHEL SELinux guide that can be
>> propagated to the Fedora version of the guide, so I do not expect that the
>> guide will get any smaller. Also, as the maintainer of the SELinux guide for
>> RHEL, I'd like to try to document things upstream first (= more eyeballs to
>> make bugs shallow :) )
>>
>> Sparks, what do you think?
>
> Well...  we just brought in all the SELinux stuff *because* it wasn't getting updated.  I was hoping that by putting all the bits together in one place that perhaps we'd get more eyes on it and hopefully get some updates.  Otherwise I doubt the thing would even get published on a regular basis.
>
> If there is someone that wants to maintain it and they want to break it off from the Security Guide then go for it.  :)

So in that case, I volunteer :)


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> Eric "Sparks" Christensen
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