[Info-vax] Should VSI create a security bug bounty program for VMS ?

[clairgrant71 at gmail.com]

On Monday, September 5, 2016 at 11:34:33 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2016-09-02 22:12:58 +0000, Craig A. Berry said:
> 
> > On 9/2/16 9:56 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> >> On 2016-09-01 17:12:59 +0000, John Reagan said:
> >> 
> >>> On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 10:33:05 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman
> >>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> Clair's (proverbial?) whiteboard of projects is undoubtedly a long one, 
> >>>> and VSI is comparatively a very tiny team with  comparatively tiny 
> >>>> funding for a project of the scale of a proprietary  server operating 
> >>>> system.
> >>> 
> >>> It is quite real. Although he'll often spin his monitor around and show 
> >>> me something in a spreadsheet with even more detail.  So I guess the 
> >>> answer is "both". :)
> >> 
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue-tracking_systems
> > 
> > Whoa. Pretty soon you'll be saying crazy stuff such as that a company 
> > that makes software ought to have a decent web site, maybe even sell 
> > that software on the internet. ;-)
> 
> That's crazy talk.   😜
> 
> I've found the use of spreadsheets for issue tracking and project 
> management tasks is a common indication of project management problems. 
>   Too easy to hide project data from other project participants; 
> intentionally or otherwise.   Too tedious to share and to collaborate 
> and to merge changes, too.   There are better tools for these tasks.    
>  If there's a bug-tracking system around — and there often is — then 
> I'd usually want the project plans and issues and discussions stored in 
> that, lest the associated knowledge be lost or forgotten or otherwise 
> isolated.    But then management gets to make these sorts of trade-offs 
> all the time; whether the tools add more overhead, or reduce the wasted 
> effort, etc.   Sometimes the most primitive and simple approach is the 
> best trade-off.
> 
> 
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VSI uses ProjectLibre (open source moral equivalent of MicroSoft Project) for all project tracking.