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Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dogtag-pki, expat, freerdp, gawk, gdb, ghostscript, gvfs, kernel, kernel-rt, libpcap, openssh, pki-core, rsync, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), Debian…

Why a VEX document should be diffed claim by claim

Nobody reads your VEX document twice. A customer reads the first one you publish, and after that they read the difference between the new one and the copy they already hold: which advisories you have…

  • Diff VEX documents claim by claim for customer readability
  • VEX document is JSON, straightforward diff reports byte-level changes
  • Keyed comparison promotes unmatched items to top of report

Ceremony proportional to irreversibility: Type 1 vs Type 2 engineering decisions

By Decision Desk Every engineering team eventually has the same argument. One group says "we need more design review, we keep shipping things we regret." Another says "we need less process, it takes…

  • Type 1 decisions are irreversible and require careful deliberation
  • Type 2 decisions are reversible and can be undone if needed
  • Appropriate ceremony depends on the irreversibility of each decision

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