[DISCUSS] [vote] should we fix security flaws?

2016-04-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I am not prepared to vote on this. First of all, I would need, on a private list where we can go into details of security issues, to get a feeling for the seriousness of the flaws in question. A denial of service is, in many contexts, less serious than file corruption. We may want to

[vote] should we fix security flaws?

2016-04-07 Thread Peter
How do people on this project feel about security flaws? Should we be fixing them?  I can provide evidence of vulnerabilities, I'm not proposing my fixes be adopted. Vote:  +1 Yes we should aim to fix security flaws. 0 don't care. -1 No. Regards, Peter. Sent from my Samsung device.  

Re: [DISCUSS] [vote] should we fix security flaws?

2016-04-07 Thread Peter
  I don't think we should delay the release to fix security.  You have your reasons for not voting and I respect that.  Fixing security isn't technically difficult and I  have fixes available, I'm hoping for collaborative development, so they receive peer review / modification / alternate