Re: Release Maintenance Policy

Howard Chu <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Aug 2021 02:21:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.openldap.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Saturday, August 7, 2021 1:31 PM +0100 Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>>> Also for clarity: We consider "Critical" bugs to include security
>>>> flaws resulting in unauthorized data disclosure, or unauthorized
>>>> remote code execution. We do not consider assert() failures or crashes
>>>> resulting only in Denial of Service as security flaws.
>>>
>>> That's fine as a general statement, but what we need is an explicit
>>> *documented* policy.  Likely under "Release Documents" here:
>>> <https://www.openldap.org/software/>
>>
>> Sounds like you should open a ticket against the website then.
> 
> Once we have a clear, concise well formed policy I'll do that.

That's backwards. The ticket has to exist before anyone writes a patch/MR for it.

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