Formation of "Fedora Security Team" has formally been announced on Wednesday, as a reaction to a growing number of security-related bugs that are collecting dust in Fedora Project's bug tracker.
According to the announcement, their main task will be to work with packagers, as well as with upstream of any affected software package, to help provide fixes in a timely manner.
First, though, they will have to go through backlog of more than 500 bugs, lot of which may "no longer apply since the packages have been upgraded but the tickets never got closed."
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Fedora Assembles Security Team for Bug Squashing
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Sunday August 03 2014, @01:32AM
They should also keep an eye out for areas that are in dire need of a re-write. You can only keep patching holes so long. At a certain point you're better off doing what LibreSSL is doing and start fresh.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday August 03 2014, @04:16AM
Heh. We're putting together a team to fix lots of defects, and that's awesome! Um... err.... but really there isn't a lot of defects cos our product is awesome!
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