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Kernel.org's road to recovery

Kernel.org's road to recovery

Posted Oct 7, 2011 10:39 UTC (Fri) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)
Parent article: Kernel.org's road to recovery

What about a cooperative security "service" between kernel developers: Alice occasionnally gets an access on Bob's computers and spend some time doing security auditing?

PS: Personnally, I'd favor to complement that with a reward system based on beer/wine bottles.


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Kernel.org's road to recovery

Posted Oct 9, 2011 7:36 UTC (Sun) by tfheen (subscriber, #17598) [Link]

Most kernel developers are just that: they're developers, not sysadmins, nor security people, so you'd want developers to swap services with sysadmins, not with developers. ("You fix my IO scheduler bug and I'll do a security review of your system")

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