Re: 8.4 release planning

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: 8.4 release planning
Date: 2009-01-27 03:13:55
Message-ID: 200901270313.n0R3DuI23850@momjian.us
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Joshua Brindle wrote:
> While we haven't been able to analyze the patches directly to
> determine whether the security goals are indeed being met we
> have had much discussion and eventually community agreement on
> the security model being implemented. This happened years ago
> and has since been merged into the SELinux reference policy that
> practically all SELinux users use (distributions start with the
> reference policy and add rules/modules suitable for them).
>
> So the security model has been looked at, though not the
> implementation and we do have a community of developers, users
> and customers interested in this work.

That is good to know.

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