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Comment by belter | Hacker News Reader

Did the author of cURL ever get his US Visitor Visa, or is he still considered too dangerous to allow into the USA? \s

The author (me) did get a visa, after a mere 937 days: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09/a-us-visa-in-937-days...

Roughly the same thing happened to me, although it only took 11 months to get the visa. It happened to so many people at the company I work for (IBM / Red Hat) that they eventually gathered together testimonials from everyone and sent them to one of the senators where Red Hat is based in North Carolina, and magically everyone's visa "problem" was resolved within 2 weeks. The root cause is that Trump defunded the relevant sections of the State Department: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/07/28/americas-...

Do you have your process of how to handle bug reports written down? I'd love to see it, especially if it includes what data you gather, like the commit that introduced a bug.

I guess it's probably in everything curl or will be?

I only record the introduction commit for security flaws as they are rare and important enough to give that level of attention. And that's not a mandatory or required step in our process, I do it mostly as a service for users and to satisfy my own curiosity.

Our process for handling security problems in curl is documented here: https://curl.se/dev/secprocess.html

Love you man great software

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