[Development] How to release critical fixes?

[Richard Moore]

On 5 October 2012 15:32, Rafael Roquetto <rafael.roquetto at kdab.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Following the discussion concerning 4.8.3-1 vs 4.8.4, I think an important
> gap on the workflow has been exposed: how to release critical patches? I am
> not sure if this makes sense, since I am entirely not acquitanted to the
> entire release process, but would anyone have any suggestion or comments on
> how we could issue these exceptional releases that should only include highly
> critical fixes (i.e. the SSL one)? Feedback?

I'm currently working on a proposed security policy that will address
some parts of this. I'll be posting it here for comments soon.

Cheers

Rich.