[documentation] security forum/feed split plan.

[Peter Wolanin]

Initial changes have been completed, though there may need to be some
tweaks to the block content.

-Peter


On 3/10/09, Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Based on the DCDC security team BoF and discussions with Gábor and
>  general sign-off from Heine and other security team members yesterday,
>  below is a plan that I will carry forward and execute (with your help)
>  in the coming day or so.  The goal of this plan is to more clearly
>  distinguish core and contrib security issues and make the good record
>  of Drupal core more apparent.  If you feel that there are serious
>  problems with the plan, please write back as soon as possible.
>
>  All existing SAs will be divided among 3 forums:
>
>  - Drupal core security advisories
>  - Contributed project security advisories
>  - Security public service announcements
>
>  Since there are fewer core SAs and PSAs than contrib SAs, we'll make
>  two new forums for core and PSAs and move the existing forum nodes to
>  those.  It appears that the lists module that is part of the drupalorg
>  project will support multiple forum tids going to a single list, so
>  after the topics are moved someone with root access will just need to
>  edit settings.php to add the new tids to the settings array.
>
>  These 2 aliases will be pointed to the new core SA forum tid taxonomy page/feed:
>  http://drupal.org/security
>  http://drupal.org/security/rss.xml
>
>  We will add new aliases for the other tids like:
>
>  http://drupal.org/contrib-security
>  http://drupal.org/contrib-security/rss.xml
>  http://drupal.org/security-psa
>  http://drupal.org/security-psa/rss.xml
>
>  All 3 of the taxonomy pages will get the 3 blocks currently on
>  http://drupal.org/security
>
>  For the short term at least, the block at the top left will just
>  contain links to all 3 pages and feeds.  In the longer term, we might
>  do something more clever like add tabs to the /security page
>
>  Probably some minor handbook changes will be needed to reflect this
>  re-organization.
>
>
>  -Peter
>