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Should supported releases be shown on downloads table even if it contains insecure modules? If so, how?

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Created on 16 November 2013, about 11 years ago
Updated 18 March 2023, almost 2 years ago

Updated: Comment #7

Problem/Motivation

History

The 7.x release of project caused most distributions to disappear, causing this issue to surface #2122795: Unable to download 7.x distributions with linked projects → . With the release of project, its fixed for supported releases, but releases that contain insecure modules are not listed. This is a pretty important issue as distribution maintainers are all going to have difficulty whenever a new module they're dependent on is marked 'insecure'.

Questions

Should insecure releases be shown on the downloads table for a distribution? Should an indicator/legend be present to alert downloaders to a potential issue.

Proposed resolution

Yes: show the releases

  • Removing a release without notification to the maintainer is a new behavior and maintainers would need to be educated to stay aware/active in updating insecure releases.
  • Removing a release will give downloaders the impression that the project has no releases and is effectively dead, this is not the right impression to give them
  • It makes it very difficult, even for actively maintained distributions, to keep their projects on the download list if there is a security release.
  • The need to educate maintainers and downloaders alike should be tackled by visual indicators (red, orange?) and an explanation saying what that visual indicator means (e.g. "This release includes a module or theme that is outdated and a newer version with a security fix. As always, downloaders are encouraged to evaluate the security of code prior to installing it.").

Arguments against (No!)

  • We shouldn't allow people to easily download a distribution with outdated modules.
📌 Task
Status

Closed: won't fix

Version

3.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇺🇸United States japerry KVUO

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