[support] change in format of security advisories

[Greg Knaddison]

You're the first to complain the patch is gone ;)

That said, I agree with you and this thread works as a request to the
Security Team to add a link to relevant diffs inside the SA.

Regards,
Greg

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
<mail at webthatworks.it> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2011 05:45:11 -0600
> Greg Knaddison <greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:
>
>> It's still available, but not as directly. The patches were
>> provided with the intent that people could use those to upgrade
>> their site if they are nervous about all the other changes
>> (bugfixes, features) in core. They may have facilitated your use
>> case, but it wasn't a primary purpose.
>
> I appreciate the addition of a security only full drupal archive too
> but as you may have guessed not as much as the diff. Being able to
> see at a glance what were the changes quickly looks a quite
> reasonable use case as well.
>
> Since there is no quick path to the right place of the git web
> interface I think the new security advisory format lost an important
> feature that shouldn't be hard to resurrect, that would make
> unnecessary to bet on which format is serving drupal best.
>
>> If you really want to see the specific changes, look at
>
>> http://drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git
>
> thanks for the pointer
>
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> Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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