EGI SVG Advisories

Publishing an advisory

Advisories are to be published by pushing a new file to https://github.com/EGI-Federation/SVG-advisories.

https://advisories.egi.eu is built using GitHub pages.

Source files are in Markdown format, and Jekyll will be used to generate the static site.

New site builds are triggered automatically whenever the repository is updated.

It can take up to a few minutes to see the changes being published.

Overall procedure

Only selected people having write access to this repository can publish advisories.

Advisories are stored in subdirectories named as the current year.

• Use the template Advisory-SVG-YYYY-XX-Template.md to create a file in the destination directory, renaming using the advisory name (i.e. Advisory-SVG-YYYY-XX.md)
• Edit the advisory content
• Update the metadata concerning the advisory at the top of the file
  • tile: page title, usually the advisory name Advisory-SVG-YYYY-XX
  • published: remove this line or the advisory won’t be published, can be useful when drafting.
  • permalink: the public to the advisory, allowing to configure the public URL used to access the advisory. Only specify what have to be used after https://advisories.egi.eu
    • permalink /Advisory-SVG-YYYY-XX will mean that an advisory stored in the 2022 folder will be accessible at this URL: https//advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-YYYY-XX
• Edit the relevant index file to reference the new advisory.

Adding aliases to an advisory

In case an advisory should be reachable by multiple URLs, like for an advisory covering multiple CVEs, it’s possible to specify some URL paths that will be redirected automatically to the primary URL of the advisory.

This can be achieved by using the redirect_from attribute:

---
title: Advisory-SVG-CVE-XXXX-XXXX
permalink: /Advisory-SVG-CVE-XXXX-XXXX
redirect_from:
  - /Advisory-SVG-CVE-XXXX-YYYY
  - /Advisory-SVG-XXXXXZZZZ
---

This will lead to having the advisory reachable by the following URLs:

• https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-XXXX-XXXX the permalink and the main URL, other links will redirect to this one
• https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-XXXX-YYYY redirected to https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-XXXX-XXXX
• https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-XXXXXZZZZ redirected to https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-XXXX-XXXX

Adding content to the repository

An advisory template is available, see Advisory-SVG-YYYY-XX-Template.md.

It’s possible to add files using different ways, by using the GitHub web interface, using a cloned repository or using an online IDE.

• The standard GitHub web interface is available at: https://github.com/EGI-Federation/SVG-advisories
• The GitHub.dev web IDE is available at: https://github.dev/EGI-Federation/SVG-advisories

The standard GitHub web interface is the most simple, but the editor is very basic.

The GitHub.dev web IDE provides a more advanced editor, and its usage is similar to what you would do using a local IDE. It’s slightly more complex but more powerful.

While the next sections documents pushing files directly to the main branch, it is also possible to make use of Pull Requests so that changes can be reviewed and approved before being pushed to production.

Using the GitHub.com web interface to upload a file created locally

It’s possible to prepare the file locally and then upload it to GitHub once it is ready. Once you have prepared the local file (see the advisory template) that should be named Advisory-SVG-YYYY-XX.md, you can upload it by:

• opening https://github.com/EGI-Federation/SVG-advisories
• browsing to the destination directory
• Clicking Add file -> Upload files at the top of the screen
• Selecting the local file
• Adding a Commit message
• Clicking Commit changes

Using the GitHub.com web interface to create a file online

Another solution is to edit it online. It can be done in the following way:

• opening https://github.com/EGI-Federation/SVG-advisories
• browsing to the destination directory
• Clicking Add file -> Create new file at the top of the screen
• Naming the file Advisory-SVG-YYYY-XX.md
• Adding the file content (see advisory template)
• Adding a Commit message
• Clicking Commit changes

If needed edit the relevant index file to reference the new advisory.

Editing the index file can be done in a similar way, by:

• Right clicking the file at https://github.com/EGI-Federation/SVG-advisories
• Clicking on the pen icon at the top of the file to edit it
• Adding the reference to the new advisory
• Previewing the change
• Adding a Commit message
• Clicking Commit changes

Using the GitHub.dev web IDE to create a file online

Another solution is to edit it online using the GitHub.dev web IDE. It’s an IDE based on Microsoft Visual Code.

It can be done in the following way:

• Open https://github.dev/EGI-Federation/SVG-advisories (Loading the IDE can take some time, wait for the completion)
• Right click the template file Advisory-SVG-YYYY-XX-Template.md => Copy
• Right click the destination directory => Paste
• Right click the new file create => Rename. Name the file Advisory-SVG-YYYY-XX.md.
• Left click the file to open it, if it’s not already opened in a tab.
• Add the file content, it will be automatically saved.
• Once the file is ready you need to commit it to the repository to publish it
• If needed edit the relevant index file to reference the new advisory.
• Open the Source control view in the left panel, you should see a GIT icon with the number of changed files
• In the Changes section, you can review the changes that are to be pushed
• By adding a message in the filed at the top of the changes list, and pressing the Commit and push button (with a checked icon), you can commit and push all the changes at once.
  • If you made multiple changes, it’s also possible to select changes to be committed, by staging them individually.

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