David Dawes writes: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:56:49AM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: > >David Dawes writes: > > > > > > The submission process is to go to bugs.xfree86.org. If people want > > > their submissions to be seen, that's where they should go. That's the > > > clearest explanation of the submission system that I can come up with. > > > > > > Submissions sent elsewhere may or may not be seen. > > > > > > >Do we use fixes@ and patches@ to accept submissions which the author > >chooses not to be seen? > > No, and I don't understand why you're coming up with possible uses for > a mechanism that you've previously said should be eliminated.
I was just referring to your answer. > > Perhaps the only way to eliminate the apparent "confusion" that people > seem so adept at finding is to remove those addresses completely so > that mail sent to them bounces. > Sorry, I misread your first message on this issue. You were saying that the old submission process was deprecated ie. submissions were no longer accepted thru this channel. I somehow misread this. I have to apologize. > It's really very simple. There is one place for all general (i.e. > non-security) submissions. These submissions shouldn't be made until > they can be seen. They'll be seen once committed anyway. > Yes. > >Why should anybody want his submissions not to be seen? > > >The only case I can think of that should remain confidential until > >officially announced are security fixes. These however should be > >dealt with differently anyway. > > We have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] address for security-related issues, and > an associated PGP key so that they can be encrypted if desired. This > address of course has a very limited and closed distribution. See > <http://www.xfree86.org/security/>. > Right. Egbert. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
