Rename Erlang Ecosystem to Hex
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Assessment
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- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100
Research direction
Search the GitHub Advisory pages and forms for the current “Erlang” ecosystem label, then trace every occurrence that needs the rename. Verify that the resulting package URL uses the hex type and that the OSV package ecosystem is “Hex”; done means the user-facing naming is consistent without changing the separate OTP application case.
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Description
To publish advisories with packages regarding hex.pm, currently the ecosystem has to be set to "Erlang". Since hex.pm is for Erlang, Elixir, Gleam and more, this is confusing.
Additionally, the resulting purl will be of type hex and the OSV package ecosystem is also set to "Hex".
It therefore would make sense, to rename "Erlang" to "Hex" everywhere in the GitHub Advisory pages / forms.
Alternatively, something like "BEAM" would also work, since it describes the VM all those languages share. - Let's not do that since we plan to have another purl type for OTP applications that are preinstalled: https://security.erlef.org/specs/otp_purl_type
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