[Zope3-Users] Security alert: use of Through-the-Web reStructuredText

[David Pratt]

Benji York wrote:
> David Pratt wrote:
>> What about the idea of maintaining a text file in the distribution 
>> specific to possible security issues. Is this worth considering for 
>> historical purposes so they do not get lost over time or implicitly 
>> understood by only a handful of people.
> 
> Exactly.  Any package that needs security-related things verified should 
> have a test (doctest in a text file) describing the problem and 
> verifying that it has been fixed.
> 
> I don't think we want a single file to hold them though, tests 
> (including these) should normally live near the package that they test.

Ok this all makes perfect sense. The doctest is the right place for this 
for sure. Just took me a while to see that everthing was already there 
to deal with this as consistently as all other parts of zope3. It's all 
good :-)

Regards,
David