Frank Hecker wrote:

> If you're wondering why I'm reluctant to commit on this, I have the 
> selfish motivation that I don't want mozilla.org staff (including me) 
> to have to specify in advance excactly what should be done for each 
> and every possible contingency. I would prefer to delegate to the 
> module owner, peers, and the security bug group where possible.

But you are delegating to a small, selected and confidental group. I 
think that the policy should be decided by the public. (Actually, I 
think that this is of vital importance.)

> To repeat, I'm not confident in our ability to pick (especially in 
> advance) a single time limit scheme that everyone is happy with and 
> that will make sense in every possible combination of circumstances. 
> However I'm happy to have experience to prove me wrong, and if we 
> adopt an initial policy without fixed time limits, I'd be glad to go 
> back and revisit the question later.

Note that other organizations did specify hard time limits for such 
matters. (Not that I would agree with their policies, but for other 
reasons :).)

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