576166 - Bounty and bounty-faq pages seem to conflict on alphas and nightlies

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html
"Security bug is present in the most recent supported, beta or release candidate version..."

http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty-faq.html
"CAN I GET THE BUG BOUNTY REWARD IF I DISCOVER A BUG IN AN ALPHA OR BETA RELEASE OR A NIGHTLY BUILD...? Yes, as long as the bug otherwise meets the published bug bounty program guidelines. (In particular, the bug must be reproducible in the latest nightly build and not previously reported.)"

Comment 1

[Lucas Adamski [:ladamski]]

We discussed this earlier and per meeting the FAQ clarifies the bug policy.  Its fine for it to provide more details than the main policy.  WFM

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

This seems more like a contradiction than a clarification. It's really confusing people, with bad effects: http://www.backtype.com/url/www.reddit.com%252fuser%252fmikemike/comment/00006bbad0001f33b79896da23a0d12d

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cwn0q/mozillas_new_javascript_value_representation/c0vumtn

Comment 4

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Closing old Mozilla.org website bugs due to them not being relevant to the new Python-based Bedrock system. Re-open if this is a critical bug and should be resolved on the new system too.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is a problem with the content, not a bug in the "old system".

Comment 6

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Content lives here:

http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/mozilla.org/trunk/security/bug-bounty.html?view=markup

Can't this content be on the wiki instead of Mozilla.org? The Mozilla.org site should be for promotional content for our products and less about a place for content to live. This content existed on the deprecated PHP code-base that needs to be converted over to the Python templates or moved to another location on Mozilla's websites or wikis.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

If it's on a wiki, what stops someone from upping the bounty to $100,000 just before they report a bug? ;)

Comment 8

[Chris More [:cmore]]

(In reply to Jesse Ruderman from comment #7)
> If it's on a wiki, what stops someone from upping the bounty to $100,000
> just before they report a bug? ;)

hehe :)

There is lot of important information we put on the wiki and that's what revision history is for, but you do have a valid point.

It looks like dveditz does most of the commits to SVN in the security section and he could also make the content changes you request.

is that something you can work with Dan on?

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

In the old mozilla.org working group, we always had that stance that official policy documents (like the bounty program one) belong on mozilla.org instead of the wiki because that gives them an "official" meaning and even if there's ways to restrict edits on a wiki, it's not transparent to readers that it's not a "anyone can edit anything in" page if it's on wiki.m.o.

Comment 10

[Chris More [:cmore]]

(In reply to Robert Kaiser (:[e-mail]) from comment #9)
> In the old mozilla.org working group, we always had that stance that
> official policy documents (like the bounty program one) belong on
> mozilla.org instead of the wiki because that gives them an "official"
> meaning and even if there's ways to restrict edits on a wiki, it's not
> transparent to readers that it's not a "anyone can edit anything in" page if
> it's on wiki.m.o.

The working group is the Websites team plus some other stakeholders. The only issue is that Mozilla.org is 3 servers put together with a lot Apache magic/redirects to make it work as one site for the short term.

All of the security content and a lot of other pages are on the legacy PHP code and server that is deprecated. Python is the standard language now and we are doing everything with the Django web framework. This content needs to either be converted over to Django templates or moved to another server (sub-domain or wiki).

Comment 11

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

I think this was addressed in the last updates I did.