Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:52:33 -0500 From: "Jung, Michael" <mjung@npc.net> To: "'Wes Peters'" <wes@softweyr.com>, "'Steve Reid'" <sreid@sea-to-sky.net> Cc: "'Sheldon Hearn'" <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, "'Bill Swingle'" <unfurl@dub.net>, "'security@FreeBSD.ORG'" <security@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'Jordan Hubbard'" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: [btellier@USA.NET: Several FreeBSD-3.3 vulnerabilities] Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Financial_Allian%l=EXCHANGE-991202215233Z-9345@exchange.finall.com>
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Why not just have the PR system email the ORIGINATOR when the PR is closed? This way the originator is informed of the update and it's give them the opportunity to make sure the problem is really resolved. At our organization the ORIGINATOR actually receives email any time the status changes on a ticket. --mikej >-----Original Message----- >From: Wes Peters [SMTP:wes@softweyr.com] >Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:19 PM >To: Steve Reid >Cc: Sheldon Hearn; Bill Swingle; security@FreeBSD.ORG; Jordan Hubbard >Subject: Re: [btellier@USA.NET: Several FreeBSD-3.3 vulnerabilities] > >Steve Reid wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:24:58PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >> > If you're not going to badger a port's maintainer until he/she does >> > something, you're unlikely to get results out of a single request. >> > That's why the PR system is good. The PR sits there pissing us off >> > until someone does something about it. :-) >> >> In my case I don't think it would've made a difference. Something _was_ >> done about it, but it was a halfway job. If it had been reported via a >> PR the PR would probably have been closed. > >Actually, this is a problem in the canonical FreeBSD usage of PRs. PRs >should generally be closed by the person REPORTING the PR. When a developer >thinks they have the problem fixed, they should put the PR in "feedback" and >let the ORIGINATOR close the PR. > >-- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > >Wes Peters Softweyr >LLC >wes@softweyr.com >http://softweyr.com/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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