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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:48:17 -0700
From:      Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        "Timur I. Bakeyev" <timur@FreeBSD.org>, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r347949 - in head/net: samba36 samba4 samba41
Message-ID:  <5320BA01.1010304@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <CALdFvJGqKbQcJB4axBBaGZE=WrnC%2BdA4dBq9oEE6S%2Bh_zVb7hw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201403120107.s2C17UgI088987@svn.freebsd.org> <CALdFvJGqKbQcJB4axBBaGZE=WrnC%2BdA4dBq9oEE6S%2Bh_zVb7hw@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi, Timur,

On 03/11/14 23:19, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote:
> The practice of certain commiters just randomly picking up ports
> and making changes there without contacting maintainer beforehand
> becomes more and more annoying and abusive recently.
> 
> I've spent all night, trying to put all the stacked changes all
> together and test Samba ports when at a commit attempt suddenly
> learn, that someone felt the urge to interfere and bump port
> versions just cause he was in a mood. Well, thanks a lot.
> 
> And yes, I hate to change PORTREVISION.
> 
> Have a nice day.

My apologies if what I did have made you unhappy.

I did the update mainly because samba is a popular port, and the
advisory for SAMR service is both unenforced security policy and a
denial of service (memory leak) from remote that affects all Samba
versions.

I should have sent an email beforehand but noticed Samba 4.x ports
were not updated for a few recent releases that contained relatively
important fixes, so I (erroneously) assumed that you may be busy and
decided to make the change myself after some basic sanity tests and
give you notification after that. Sorry about that.

In the future, will the following procedure be an improvement to our
existing practice, when a vendor have released a new (full) release to
address a security issue, if it's not a vendor issued patch that can
be done as a PORTREVISION bump plus adding vendor security patch?

 - We update vuxml first, and then mark port as FORBIDDEN with a
reference to the entry; send maintainer a notification with a special
timeout of 24 hours to response with objection;

 - An update to the port is only done if maintainer approved or did
not respond within the deadline.

Cheers,
- -- 
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!           Live free or die
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