First, please let me say that I understand that FreeBSD is a volunteer project. I know that most everyone is using donated time and donated hardware. You'll find some old email addresses of mine in the ports collection, in fact, and it's in the spirit of volunteering that I write today.
The Heartbleed vulnerability is probably the highest priority, farthest-reaching vulnerability I've ever seen. Yet nearly a day later, FreeBSD remains unpatched. There are many worried sysadmins and other users in #freebsd and elsewhere wondering what's going on and when their systems will be patched. So far all we have is an unofficial gist on github and some discussion here (which most users don't see) with no further information. More transparency is needed. Given the above, I come with a request to help: how can the userbase at large help with getting these sorts of fixes out more quickly? I and others have hardware and time we'd be glad to donate if it would help resolve these sorts of critical issues more quickly. I'm sorry if I sound impatient. I want to help, but don't know how, so I'm asking here. -- Chris Nehren
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