SLSA: supply-chain levels for software artifacts specification, README overview
The README presents SLSA as a framework with levels for improving software supply chain security.
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Source: https://github.com/slsa-framework/slsa
What it supplies: The README presents SLSA as a framework with levels for improving software supply chain security.
Useful for: - Read the specification to define build and provenance requirements.
- Pin a released version by using its release branch.
First action: - Read slsa.dev for an introduction.
- Read the spec directory, using a release branch for a stable version.
Prerequisites and limits: The main branch is a draft; released versions live on release branches.
- The main branch is a draft and may change.
- The repository is a specification, not a tool.
Source-documented: Community Specification License 1.0, with Apache License 2.0 for earlier contributions.
Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on intro, repository contents and licence README text only; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.
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