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Haskell security advisory database (Hackage packages)

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
databases, security

Research direction

Start by reviewing the haskell/security-advisories repository and its issue 11, then compare that discussion with the advisory-database project context. Clarify whether and how the Hackage package advisory database should be incorporated; done requires an agreed integration scope and approach.

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Description

Repository: https://github.com/haskell/security-advisories

They had an issue to created to add the database to this repo, but was closed and I'm not sure if conversations ever happened: https://github.com/haskell/security-advisories/issues/11

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Merged PRs (30d)
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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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