DBSA:Instructions

How-to fill in the DBSA articles:

Hit "edit" on the DBSA:Template template and copy the contents of it into a separate page with the format "DBSA:YYYY-NNNN" (e.g. DBSA:2013-0001), make sure the page doesn't already exist by checking Category:DBSA . Best way to do this is on the "edit" page on the template, do it through the address bar and edit the "title=" param.

DBSA ID:

Leave this as is, it automatically is filled.

Regarding:

This section should be a one-line description about the issue, must contain the subject matter.

Writeup:

Fill in with four ~, this will automatically convert to name with date.

Date:

Fill in as the Year, Month, Day numerically with zero padding

Last Modified:

Leave this line as-is

Who should take note:

This line should contain what group is affected by the issue.

Classification

Priority: (IMMEDIATE URGENT MEDIUM LOW)
Severity: (HIGH MEDIUM LOW)
Spread of Issue: (CROSS-PLATFORM LIMITED) (HIGH MEDIUM LOW)

Select one of the words in each parenthesis.

Rationale:

Fill in the rationale for the choice in each above

Description

This section should contain an easily readable description of the issue at hand

Technical Details

This section should contain elements like file contents, URLs, hashes, diagnostic output and so forth,
using the nowiki tags to avoid formatting issues. If any URLs contain questionable software or the like,
obscure them but do not omit anything by using "hxxp://" instead of "http://" to avoid automatic linking  

Mitigation/Solution

This section should contain like the description actionable text that provides how to overcome or 
otherwise temporarily mitigate the issue.

References

Any references you may have on the issue (e.g. links). Should not be to a news aggregation service
(link to the source) or the like and should contain technical information. Internal sources
may omit this or credit it to the staff member(s) that performed the research

Then to complete submission

Create a secondary redirect page, this page should be entitled: DBSA-Redir:DBSA-YYYY-NNNN_Short_Title - for instance: "DBSA-Redir:DBSA-2013-0001:_Sample_Article", it should contain:

#REDIRECT [[DBSA:YYYY-NNNN]]

[[Category:DBSA-Redir]]
 

This publishes the article to the Digibase front page's DBSA listing