On 08/04/14 14:57, Mark Cox wrote:
> Cant tell if I did reply all on my reply.   No need meeting for srt we caught 
> up offline.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Major Hayden [[email protected]]
> Received: Tuesday, 08 Apr 2014, 2:34PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Developing a security Bat Signal?
>
>
> On 4/8/14, 8:11, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Maybe we need to have some sort of (opt-in) Fedora Bat Signal for
> > extra-critical and urgent security issues in core packages. We
> > would promise not to use it unless the internet were actually on
> > fire, as it appears to be in this case, and then have (escrowed
> > somewhere?) private 24/7 contact information (phone numbers, SMS).
>
> > What do you think? Anyone interested in developing this idea
> > further?
>
> This is a great idea and would really be valuable in the types of
> situations we had yesterday.  I ended up jumping on Twitter/G+ to
> spread the news about package updates.  Having a team dedicated to the
> fixing and the communications would help keep people better informed.
>
> With that said, I'd be glad to help.  I'm sure we can come up with
> some technologies and processes relatively quickly.  Something as
> simple as a call to join #fedora-eoc (emergency operations center)
> might be a good stopgap.
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We should be calling it the hat signal though, preferably with three
distinct colours. Red for RHEL issues. Blue for Fedora. And green,
purple, orange and blue for CentOS. ;-p


Regards,

Tristan

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