[arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

[Ananda Samaddar]

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:14:18 -0600
Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Daenyth Blank
> 
> Don't forget: everyone is interested in "starting discussions" or
> "planning" or "drawing up plans", but when it comes to the actual work
> well, then the original initiators get disinterested. It's as if the
> problem is purely academic and all that's needed is a solution and
> things will simply get implemented.

I'm surmising that this has happened before.  My solution to the
'security issue' would be administrative rather than technical to allay
the fears of one poster who didn't want Arch to get overly
complicated.  I'm going to work on processes that a security team
would need to follow when a security issue is disclosed.  I'll post
that here when it's done for discussion and comments so others can
contribute.  I've been mulling this over for a long time and I want to
make my favourite distro even better.

regards,

Ananda Samaddar