[Zeek-Dev] Re: Moving policy scripts into packages

2020-08-24 Thread Jon Siwek
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 6:43 AM Robin Sommer wrote: > 1. Move each into a a separate repository on the zeek/ GitHub >account. > > 2. Similar, but to avoid cluttering zeek/, create a new GitHub >organization "zeek-packages". I'm thinking (2). Technically, either one can

[Zeek-Dev] Re: Moving policy scripts into packages

2020-08-24 Thread Christian Kreibich
On 8/24/20 11:49 AM, Johanna Amann via zeek-dev wrote: * Testing: Currently, some of the policy scripts have tests that use Zeek functionality in rather unique ways / or are the only tests for some Zeek functionality. The SSL validation scripts are one example. This, from my point

[Zeek-Dev] Re: Moving policy scripts into packages

2020-08-24 Thread Christian Kreibich
On 8/24/20 9:51 AM, Robin Sommer wrote: Also, one additional thought: Jon reminded me that zkg can manage dependencies already. So the "collection" I mentioned could be a meta-package that depends on all the ones we want. Yeah, agreed -- I prefer #2 for the same reason. Best, Christian

[Zeek-Dev] Re: Moving policy scripts into packages

2020-08-24 Thread Johanna Amann via zeek-dev
Hi, just a few thoughts about this. Generally - I like the idea of breaking this up. I would like to list a few thoughts about additional technical points that we should perhaps think about and that play into this decision. * Testing: Currently, some of the policy scripts have tests that use

[Zeek-Dev] Re: Moving policy scripts into packages

2020-08-24 Thread Robin Sommer
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:26 -0500, Michael Dopheide wrote: > I like (2) for cleanliness. Vote counted! > there should be an easy way to distinguish them from other packages > when doing a 'zkg list'. Good point. Also, one additional thought: Jon reminded me that zkg can manage

[Zeek-Dev] Re: Moving policy scripts into packages

2020-08-24 Thread Michael Dopheide
I like (2) for cleanliness. I think some people would be fine with one large package, but in other cases, you may want the ability to easily enable/disable various standard scripts. Probably not wanting to maintain the same script in multiple places, I think that eliminates (3). Towards, (4) &

[Zeek-Dev] Moving policy scripts into packages

2020-08-24 Thread Robin Sommer
Looking for some thoughts here. One of the items on the roadmap for 4.0 is moving scripts that currently live in policy/ over into Zeek packages. The goals here are to (1) facilitate maintaining & testing them independently of Zeek releases; and (2) come to a more flexible notion of "default