Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free software is not trusted software

[Nicolás Ortega Froysa]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 05:45:57PM -0500, bill-auger wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:05:23 +0000 Andrew wrote:
> > On 20/01/2019 18:01, Nicolás Ortega Froysa wrote:
> > > It's also worth noting that this would make for another outlet for
> > > people who are interested in security and free software to enter the
> > > field and get their foot in the door.  
> > 
> > This is an excellent motivation.
> 
> more committees are rarely, if ever, desirable - splintering of efforts
> leads to redundant efforts, and therefore wasted time - a far better
> approach would be for the community to focus more on the existing
> "outlets", that are already equipped and experienced in this very task,
> because they have been doing it for many years (such as their distro
> maintainers - for example: https://www.debian.org/security/audit/) -
> some of them have been doing exactly what is being proposed here for
> more time than some people reading this have existed in this planet -
> no one needs a new invitation to put their foot into any new doors -
> those doors already exist and are already encouraging everyone to
> involve themselves - please do feel free to put your foot into one of
> those existing doors today - to conclude that a brand new separate
> committee would somehow do a better job is very myopic, uninformed, and
> and therefore not sincerely motivated
> 

I was not aware of the existence of this project, I was simply
brainstorming an idea. Considering this, I agree that it is much more
efficient for people to join an already existing project (that would not
have to waste time on organization, as a new one would) such as
Debian's. What's more, despite this being distro-specific, their
announcements are public, and therefore communication between multiple
distros would not be an issue and double-work between them can be easily
avoided. Thanks for the catch, Bill.

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