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How to perform modifications on bins handled by succinct hash bin delegations?
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Description
Description of issue or feature request:
Currently, I am working to support succinct hash bin delegation as described in TAP 15 in Repository Editor for TUF.
Repository Editor for Tuf is a CLI tool that tests the usability of the public API calls provided by python-tuf while also providing a good hands-on visualization approach to learn about python-tuf and the TUF specification as a whole.
While working on it I came up with the following question:
how do we want to approach changes related to delegated bins represented by succinct_roles dictionary inside a targets role?
For example, what should we do when a user wants to do the following in a bin metadata file:
- add/remove a new key
- change threshold
- bump expiry
- add/remove a target
- add/remove/edit delegation
- bump version
I want to discuss it with everyone who is interested but will especially love to hear the opinions of the maintainers.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading TAP 15 and the Repository Editor for TUF context, then inspect how succinct_roles in a targets role represents bin metadata. Review the six proposed operations and the existing discussion to determine the desired behavior; the issue is complete only when maintainers agree on an approach.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100