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Design VEX changes for Advisories

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The planned Vulnerablecode change for the migration to Advisories instead of Vulnerabilities will have a significant impact on the current VEX functionality in DejaCode which is currently "keyed" by Vulnerability.

Looking at the example of: https://public.dejacode.com/products/Evaluation/DejaCode/5.1/#vulnerabilities in DjC Evaluation, it seems that we will be missing the VCID to group related advisories and this will make the display much more complex.
- Have we ruled out having something like VCID to group advisories - perhaps the aliases from the advisory record? It is difficult to suggest how to display without some way to group obviously related advisories.
- It looks like the change will make the VEX reporting more complex if we cannot logically group them so that a user can apply one VEX statement to many advisories.
- We may also need to consider a DejaCode configuration option to filter the Advisories that are imported into DejaCode based on the origin (importer). For example a user might want to ignore RedHat advisories if they do not use RedHat products. Red Hat is an interesting example because there are multiple datasets to exclude - e.g. Red Hat, Fedora and ? If some Advisories are excluded we would want some way to alert the user about the intentional exclusion and the availability of additional data.

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