On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:50:18PM +0200, jdd wrote:
> Marcus Meissner wrote:
> 
> > My slides are here:
> >     http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/a/a1/FOSDEM_security_process.pdf
> 
> I wish I could attend :-(
> 
> do you mean that you work in parallel with the original
> developpers of the application? for example if a
> vulnerability is seen in Apache, I guess apache team warn
> all the pro clients, not to make twice the same work.
> 
> this is may be what lacks in your slides: what is the part
> SUSE/Novell have in the external teams. Do you have a Novell
> member in the Apache team (for example), at least
> time-sharing? is such work frequent? rare? case by case?

Yes, for instance:
Peter Poeml is active at Apache,
Lars Mueller is active in Samba,
Wolfgang Rosenauer at Mozilla,
Lots of kernel developers are active at the Kernel,
etc....
 
> I've seen very different numbers as of the number of
> SUSE/Novell employes working on Linux (SUSE and pro), from
> 100 to 1000 :-)

I can't really say exactly.

> What is the real approx number, and on this number what is
> the part that do security fixes?

Total distribution development (people submitting code)
are around 100 I guess. If you add Novell there are
more.

> Its mean. If all the people work together, all fixes are
> released approx at the same time (You, Apache, Red hat,
> Debian....).

> If SUSE works mainly in it's side, may be it's first, may be
> it's late?

We _always_ work with the other vendors and the community.

Its just our internal processes do more than just pushing
out new built RPMs.

> I'll try to summarise all this on a page :-)

I have created http://en.opensuse.org/Security_Incident_Handling
right now which summarizes stuff.

Ciao, Marcus

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