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Message-ID: <86txmustd2.fsf@ds4.des.no>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:11:05 +0200
From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@....no>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: kseifried@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Advisory dates
Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@....no> writes:
> > I'm curious as to what kind of policies various distros have in
> > place wrt release dates for advisories. We (FreeBSD) have a list
> > of dates to avoid, which include major religious holidays, New
> > Year's Day etc., and try to avoid releasing advisories on or
> > immediately before these dates. [...]
> Ultimately if we start scoring off major holidays we've have no
> release dates left ;)
True, so we have to strike a balance. The problem is that we've caught
a lot of flak in the past for releasing advisories during or immediately
prior to public holidays. Maybe our users are more argumentative than
yours :)
DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@....no
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