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On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 16:06 -0600, Gordon Pettey wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 6:27 PM John Helmert III <ajak@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 09:49:27PM +0100, Jonas Stein wrote: |
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> > > On 10/11/2022 03:27, John Helmert III wrote: |
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> > > > The first GLSA in glsa.git is GLSA-200310-03, the third GLSA of |
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> > > > October 2003. It used roughly the same format of the GLSAs we release |
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> > > > today, in 2022, making that format almost as old as me. |
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> > > IFF we change the format, we should not invent a new standard [1] but |
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> > > use existing one like CSAF [2] |
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> > > [1] https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png |
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> > > [2] https://oasis-open.github.io/csaf-documentation/ |
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> > We're not inventing a new "standard", we're upgrading the format we use |
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> > to distribute GLSAs. |
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> Standard, format, semantics. You are producing a new schema in a field |
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> where at least one usable (and already-improved?) schema exists. NIH? |
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GLSA: 2003 |
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CSAF: 2016 |
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Sure sounds like OASIS did a NIH there. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |