Re: ROCK Linux security advisory structure proposal

Daniel Jahre <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:50:41 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.rock.devel
Organization ROCK Linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 16:38, Daniel Jahre wrote:
> After the first security announcement I send out quickly today, Netrunner
> suggested the annoucements should have a structure. I agree to that and
> want to make a proposal for that in this mail. I used a SuSE security
> annoucement as template for that. The announcement should be sent as mail
> and be linked in the Wiki. I think it is useful it have an ID for every
> announcement, so it can be referenced easy. My suggestion is to use the
> layout RL-$date-$nr, e.g. RL-20060321-01 for the first advisory at that
> date. $nr should just be increased.

I changed the prefix to RLSA to have it more like other distributions. From 
now on I will keep it this way, if there aren't any objections. I also added 
the field:  Fixed at trunk revision: to make it easier to track if a security 
patch is in the current checkout or not.

Cheers,

Daniel