Re: Why send bugs embargoed to distros?

[Leo Famulari <leo () famulari name>]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 02:52:13PM +0100, Cliff Perry wrote:
> On 23/09/17 12:44, Hanno Böck wrote:
> > b) if people think that they'd usually prepare a fixed package, however
> > they didn't consider optionsbleed important enough. (Naturally I
> > probably have a bias seeing my findings as more important as other
> > people, but I could live with that.)

Guix is not on the distros lists, but sometimes upstream projects
contact us privately with pre-release embargoed bug fixes. We will test
and prepare the updated packages during the embargo period whether or
not we thing the bugs warrant an embargo.

> Hi Hanno,
> The detail of your report was good quality and I'm sure appreciated by
> everyone who needed to review it. I know that for Red Hat the
> pre-disclosure was useful.

Agreed, your reports are very useful to us, whether we read them in the
pre-release period, or after they have been disclosed publicly.

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