Security issues - Jira & Github

Basic steps:

  1. Open a Security JIRA.
  2. Unlike a typical patch that would go directly into a PR (pull request), the patch will be attached to the JIRA for review. 
  3. After patch is approved , commit it directly to Sakai trunk using (example below). When pushed, Git will have an entry for the author, as specified explicitly above, and the committer, whoever pushes in the patch. 
git commit --author="Joe Smith <joe.smith@genericinstitution.edu>"