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Sign updocs: update contributing to mentions security yarn releases #1173
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I am not familiar with their process but only the security patch should be applied an the major and minor version should stay the same, if possible. |
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BTW, any other teams we should also mention/tag? |
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I believe that @tianon could also give us some valuable input. |
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Many other images perform even minor component updates within the same patch release of their primary software, but regardless I think generally that security updates are always a good candidate for process exceptions since that typically matches the expectations of the majority of users (in other words, users will typically expect to get security updates as quickly as possible, regardless of the non-security-updates process). |
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Thanks @tianon, that matches what I've seen (and my own expectation) as well |
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Let's get this done |

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SimenB commentedDec 18, 2019
@PeterDaveHello brought up a great point in #1170 (comment) - our current policy states that we only update yarn when there's new releases of node. I somewhat regret just moving on instead of backing out those changes and discussing. However, I think we should update it on security updates, so here's a PR with a policy update