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From: Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How to coordinate web team for security releases?
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 01:14:44 +0300 (MSK)
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Tom Lane wrote:

> Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]> writes:
>> * Upload the new tarballs to a private area (instead of public FTP site)
>> so that only packagers and other related people can download them to
>> build the packages, etc.
>
> We're not going to be able to make things really water-tight unless we
> are willing to close off CVS somehow; which is not an idea I favor.
> So I'm not particularly concerned about hiding tarballs --- especially
> since that's not something we'd do in a normal, non-security release
> cycle.  As I said before, keeping it off the mailing lists is probably
> sufficient, and in any case has to be our first goal before we start
> worrying about any more-invasive procedural changes.

I hope we will not go beyond this.

btw, how other OSS projects manage releases ?

Inkscape, for example, just didn't announce it's 0.45 release, but 
all tarballs were available from sourceforge site.

 	Regards,
 		Oleg
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Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
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