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Debian Addresses Security Problems
An anonymous reader writes "After suffering manpower shortages and other issues, Debian says it has finally addressed concerns that it was falling behind on security. Debian's elected leader Branden Robinson yesterday flagged an inquiry into the processes by which security updates are released, citing a potential lack of transparency and communication failures. It was also an appropriate time to add new members to Debian's security team, as several have been inactive for a while, Robinson said. Debian initial security problems can be found in this earlier Slashdot posting."
Of those many developers only 5 of them where in the Security team. And of those 5 only one (Brandon) has remained active.
Due to the nature of security issues, the team had tough requirements for new members, which kept fresh blood to enter the team.
Now that this problem got the attention it unfortunatly needed, new members have stepped to the plate to strengthen the security team.
You can read more about the handling of this situation in Brandon's Project Leader Report
Debian has no such shortage of manpower. Doing a quick wc -l over the list of Debian developers gets 1,671 people. And that's just the development team, which doesn't include the list of Debian System Administrators (which, admittedly, is much shorter). Debian has enough people for what it does, and the list of contributors continues to grow.
The problem it was experiencing, however, was a shortage of people assigned to the security team, which has apparently now been resolved.
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