Re: A future off HackerOne?

Patrick Monnerat via curl-library <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.library
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On 8/12/25 11:44 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2025, Patrick Monnerat via curl-library wrote:
>
>> However if we drop HackerOne, we lose this indicator: why don't we 
>> turn it to our advantage by just requiring a strictly positive 
>> reputation that cannot be reached by non-serious people before 
>> considering reports ?
>
> Because HackerOne doesn't allow us to set that threshold. Because they 
> don't seem too willing to work with us on this problem.
It's a pity! I would expect some partnership from such a third part :-/
>
> Yeah but accepting the report only to immediately close it if the 
> reporter has a too low reputation feels like an icky solution. 
> Disrespectful even.
This xould be a polite closing with a redirecttion to some alterrrnative 
painful reporting procedure.
> I wouldn't mind requiring a certain reputation level and I think that 
> would even be a good thing to try, but then we would need to reject it 
> earlier; before the user gets to submit it.
>
> But HackerOne has no such setting.
Any ateernative third part to HO that can feature such a threshold ?
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