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Show open improvement suggestions on the advisory page

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Domain
frontend, security

Research direction

Start by locating the advisory page and improvement form in the repository, then trace how each identifies an advisory and its existing improvements. Done means both surfaces link to the open pull requests for that advisory, including a contributor's own submitted pull request.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

The advisory page and the improvement form do not show whether someone has already suggested a change for that advisory. Two people can work on the same improvement without knowing about each other, and after you submit the form you cannot get back to your own pull request from the advisory either. The only way to find it is to search github/advisory-database for the GHSA id.

A link to the open pull requests for that advisory, on the advisory page and on the improvement form, would solve both.

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Merged PRs (30d)
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Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

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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