From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: nicolas@petton.fr, rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:07:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb7c45b6-0c29-5ce4-eb97-532f2bf3e4c1@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmmv5zay7j.fsf@suse.de>
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> It's all about trust. And especially in the context of security, trust
> is the most important thing.
You're right. Security-minded users need to be suspicious when new software
releases are made out of the blue. Having an emergency release tagged and
publicly visible in the repository can help allay these natural suspicions.
We don't have much practice making emergency Emacs releases because we don't
often make them (which is a good thing!). That being said, the next time it
happens we should try to have a smoother rollout, and having a properly tagged
commit should be part of that. This will help avoid this particular confusion
next time.
Another thing I'd like is a faster rollout. We were publicly notified of the bug
on September 4 and did not announce a new release containing a small fix until
over a week later. Although there were reasons for the delay, it would be better
to get announcements and fixes out faster. I've had multiple offers from others
to help, and would like to take up at least one of these offers. Of course trust
is an important concern here as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-13 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-11 20:52 [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 8:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 11:29 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 11:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 12:10 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2017-09-12 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 12:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-09-12 12:55 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 13:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 13:29 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2017-09-12 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 15:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 15:55 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-12 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 18:26 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 19:09 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 18:39 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-13 6:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 16:42 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2017-09-12 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 18:38 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 19:00 ` Robert Weiner
2017-09-12 20:49 ` martin rudalics
2017-09-12 22:05 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2017-09-12 23:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-09-13 16:18 ` Tino Calancha
2017-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-20 22:32 ` Tim Cross
2017-09-21 7:25 ` Richard Copley
2017-09-21 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-21 18:53 ` Richard Copley
2017-09-21 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-21 19:26 ` Richard Copley
2017-09-21 20:56 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-22 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-22 15:29 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-27 10:18 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-29 9:54 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-29 10:46 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-29 12:46 ` Richard Copley
2017-10-02 11:54 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-30 7:22 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-21 20:37 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-22 2:02 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-22 7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 15:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 6:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-13 6:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-13 7:07 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-09-13 7:40 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-13 8:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-13 8:57 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2017-09-13 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 8:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-13 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 8:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-13 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 15:12 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-09-13 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 18:14 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-19 23:36 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-12 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 22:13 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-14 14:19 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2017-09-14 20:50 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-13 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-12 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 16:05 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-09-12 16:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-12 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 18:26 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-09-12 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-14 6:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-09-15 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 11:15 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-09-12 22:11 ` Timur Aydin
2017-09-12 22:16 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-12 16:06 ` Roland Winkler
2017-09-12 16:41 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-12 16:54 ` Roland Winkler
2017-09-12 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 17:40 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-12 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 18:29 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-13 19:36 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-09-14 1:42 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-14 6:37 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-09-14 13:24 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-09-14 15:01 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-14 20:52 ` [ANNOUNCE] " Richard Stallman
2017-09-12 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 17:46 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-13 1:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-14 19:49 ` security-patches package (was: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released) Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-15 12:32 ` security-patches package Stefan Monnier
2017-09-16 15:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-21 20:01 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-22 3:12 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <878th32hzx.fsf@russet.org.uk>
2017-09-25 10:24 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-22 12:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-23 4:15 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-12 23:45 ` Hotfixing older Emacsen? Was: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-09-14 10:05 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-18 0:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-18 7:48 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-18 11:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-18 20:31 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-18 20:30 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-13 18:40 ` Charles A. Roelli
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