Hi Andre,

On Jul 29, 2011, at 7:50 AM, André Schnabel wrote:

>> I must confess I find it really strange that policies seem to be changed 
>> here.
>> 
>> We had a good team at OpenOffice.org 
> 
> Well .. this is not OpenOffice.org, this is Apache.  ;)


first, I thought this is ironic note, but then I have to agree. And I have to 
say that I have changed my mind in this. I'll explain:

Security was not the primary goal back in OOo project. After security team was 
established, it gets the attention it requires. Even at these days, Sun 
security team was consulted many times. When Oracle bought Sun, the same happen 
with Oracle security team. And when I think about this in general, this is my 
proposal:

Apache has its general security related list - [email protected].

Apache OpenOffice.org project should have its own list as well - AOOo SEC or 
how it will be named... Only people from Apache security team and AOOo project 
should be there.

OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice and other downstreams should continue to discuss 
their relevant security issues somewhere, because this was the thing that 
worked perfectly in the past. But this place can't be AOOo security mailing 
list. I'd be happy if this (CLOSED!) discussion place about not yet disclosed 
vulnerabilities can be hosted at Apache.

If Apache project can't host such discussion place, then yes, this could be 
only because of BO ;-)
-- 
Pavel Janík



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