The Gentoo Linux Security Project mission is to ensure that vulnerabilities in software accessible through Gentoo Linux Portage tree are found and fixed in a timely manner, so that our users remain protected against known vulnerabilities.
| Developer | Nickname | Role |
| Robert Buchholz | rbu | Lead ( Operational manager ) |
| Pierre-Yves Rofes | py | Lead ( Operational manager ) |
| Raphaël Marichez | falco | Member ( GLSA Coordinator ) |
| Alex Legler | a3li | Member ( GLSA Coordinator ) |
| Matt Drew | aetius | Member ( GLSA Coordinator ) |
| Stefan Behte | craig | Member ( GLSA Coordinator ) |
| Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen | jaervosz | Member ( GLSA Coordinator ) |
| Tobias Heinlein | keytoaster | Member ( GLSA Coordinator ) |
| Kurt Lieber | klieber | Member ( Infrastructure liaison ) |
| Ned Ludd | solar | Member ( Security patches, Auditing ) |
| Mike Frysinger | vapier | Member ( Security patches ) |
| Matthias Geerdsen | vorlon | Member ( GLSA Coordinator ) |
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.
We are currently looking for users interested in helping the project with the following jobs:
The security project has the following subprojects:
| Project | Lead | Description |
| Kernel | The Kernel Security subproject is tasked with keeping all kernel sources secure. | |
| Auditing | Preventive security audit of packages in the Portage tree. |
| Architecture | Security liaison |
| alpha | armin76, klausman |
| amd64 | keytoaster, chainsaw |
| hppa | jer |
| ppc | josejx, ranger |
| ppc64 | josejx, ranger |
| sparc | armin76, tcunha |
| x86 | fauli, maekke |
6. Release Engineering Security Liaison
The current Release Engineering Security liaison is pva.
7. Becoming a Gentoo Security developer
To participate in the Gentoo Linux Security Project first join the mailing list at gentoo-security@gentoo.org and sign yourself up a Bugzilla account. You may be able to talk to one of our security developers and/or users in the IRC channel #gentoo-security on irc.freenode.net for more information or just to chat about the security state of existing projects.
Candidates for the GLSA Coordinator role should read the GLSA Coordinators Guide to see what it takes to be a GLSA Coordinator. The Padawans page lists the process and status of our GLSA Coordinator recruitment efforts.
Note: If you don't have the ability to actively help by contributing work we will always need testers to maintain the security and stability of the overall project. All development, testing, and productive comments and feedback is greatly appreciated. |
Resources offered by the security project are: