Re: communication about updates to hotfixes

I agree, a security announcement list is something everyone would 
subscribe. Also a good statistic about how many plone admins are out 
there :)

RSS is difficult to check daily, it is ok for general porpouse informations.

Il 02/07/2013 06:56, ajung ha scritto:
> Once again we must keep the external admins in mind that need to get the
> message
> directly
>
> - either through an RSS
> - a dedicated security mailing list or announcement list
>
> Spreading the message on a general mailinglist is not much helpful because
> externals
> are often not subscribed to blather lists but prefer to get information e.g.
> through a dedicated announcement list. The want to get information and not
> filter the related information out the usual unrelated mailinglist noise.
>
> -aj
>
>
> Dylan Jay wrote
>> I agree with Peter. If the original hotfix deserves a plone.org news item
>> and emails to plone-dev and other lists then I think that any dot release
>> of that hotfix should be posted to the same places. Even though the
>> 1.1-1.3 of the hotfix fix isolated problems for only a small number users,
>> not knowing that it was a known issue and that there was a fix has caused
>> me and others wasted time trying to debug.  An email would have been nice.
>>
>> On 02/07/2013, at 2:44 PM, ajung<
>> lists@
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Since all hotfix updates are hosted on plone.org
>>>
>>> http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20130618
>>>
>>> it should be possible to tag all hotfix releases with a special keyword
>>> or
>>> tag.
>>>
>>> A Plone collection could provide update information about all release
>>> with
>>> this
>>> tag. Subscribing to the RSS of the collection is then straight forward.
>>>
>>> -aj
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter Jacobs-2 wrote
>>>> We had a user complaining recently saying they couldn’t delete some page
>>>> on a plone site.
>>>>
>>>> There was a corresponding error in the log, and after some googling I
>>>> found following explanation:
>>>> http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/Hotfix-gives-problem-for-delete-confirmation-dialog-td7566284.html
>>>>
>>>> That info led me to:
>>>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.PloneHotfix20130618
>>>> where I found out there is a recent upgrade to the latest Plone hotfix
>>>> (1.3).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all the hard work keeping Plone secure, but maybe you can
>>>> communicate about updates to hotfixes more prominently?
>>>> Of course its unpractical to publish every fix in some Plone package in
>>>> the newsgroups etc., but these hotfixes have to be applied to all Plone
>>>> installations, and so issues in these packages impact everyone…
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> Peter Jacobs
>>>> KU Leuven - ICTS - Belgium
>>>>
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