Autor: David Woodhouse Data: A: Jaco van der Schyff CC: exim-dev, Nigel Metheringham, Alex Kiernan Assumpte: Re: [exim-dev] Development blockage...
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:34 +0200, Jaco van der Schyff wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:11:56AM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> > Putting my THUS/Demon hat on, we clearly have lots of exim in service
> > and a vested interest in dealing with any security issue in a timely
> > manner. If a security issue came up I'd expect we'd be able to throw
> > resource at diagnosis/fix in a short time frame, so long as it was in
> > an area which affected us.
>
> Where/who are these resources. Are we hoping that they would step-up in
> the event of a security issue? I forsee alot of administrators
> switching to other MTAs, when they get spooked by these issues.
I'm sure that those who maintain the Exim package in Linux (and other
OS) distributions will also step up where necessary. I certainly expect
to.
As for development... I've never really got it into my head that it
would be _acceptable_ for me to commit stuff. I should probably get over
it. Any objections to me committing the latest version of Johannes'
dynamic-lookup patch from bug #139?
I wouldn't mind someone testing it on non-Linux systems, although it's
not the _end_ of the world if doesn't work there to start with; they can
still build everything in as we do today.