We have library imports that are forks, for example
dom/media/webaudio/blink, as the README file explains.  That should
probably be removed from that list.

On 2017-03-17 2:30 PM, Tom Ritter wrote:
> As part of a broader initiative to perform a security review of the
> third party libraries we use, there is now a semi-automated service
> that can file bugs when upstream libraries are newer than the one we
> embed.
> 
> Closely tracking upstream can ensure we don't inherit publicly known
> vulnerabilities. That's bitten us in the past and indeed during the
> initial filing of bugs, we identified a few outstanding ones. And it
> can bring in speed and performance improvements, and new features.
> 
> The initial cut of the tool has been focused on libraries that we
> embed in mozilla-central (:arroway found a ton of them) but we don't
> think the list is complete. If you're a maintainer of a library,
> please please please confirm we are tracking your library.  Check out
> https://github.com/mozilla-services/third-party-library-alert/blob/master/libraries.json
> and search for your library - if you don't see it there (and I haven't
> emailed you about it) we don't know about it and we want to both know
> about it and add it into this service.
> 
> However, there's no reason it has to be focused on mozilla-central -
> we'd be happy to track stuff for the multitude of people building
> stuff outside -central too. So if it's useful to you, let me know! And
> it doesn't have to be an entire library, we can track commits on
> individual source files inside of a larger repository also.
> 
> Also: If you do see your library there, and you would like any bugs
> filed for it to do something special (e.g. block a specific tracking
> bug, cc you, whatever) again please reach out.
> 
> Finally, it would be great if, going forward, when we add a new
> library to the tree we immediately add it into this tool. So if you're
> doing review and see someone adding a library, or even just excerpts
> from a library - ask them to add it in (or ask them to ask me to add
> it in.)
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