On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> There is still some ongoing internal discussion about the best way to
> verify that included libraries are needed and that security patches
> are watched for and applied from upstream. Chris Steipp is awesome,
> but it would be quite an additional burden to hang these thousands of
> new lines of code around his neck as yet another burden to bear. One
> current theory is that need should be determined by the RFC process
> and security support would need to be provided by a "sponsor" of the
> library.
>

As long as those libraries are installed via Composer, and well-maintained,
something like VersionEye <https://www.versioneye.com/> could take on a big
part of that burden.
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