Back to collectionCode Freeze Gives the Security Audit a Starting Point
The chain team's hardening work after the announcement had reached the audit stage. The security audit formally began, and the repository was frozen for it. The freeze gave the audit a fixed starting point and made ad hoc changes harder to merge.
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The chain team's hardening work after the announcement had reached the audit stage. A-Zhen's engineering team had still been considering changes related to nodes; now it needed to give auditors a stable body of code while retaining a way to handle genuine defects.
The security audit formally began, and the repository was frozen for it. A-Zhen proposed scheduling usability changes still under discussion only after the audit scope was clear. If an urgent security flaw emerged, the team would explain the reason and boundaries of each necessary change. For now, it separated ideas under discussion from committed code so an unfinished design would not be mistaken for the version being audited.
The freeze gave the audit a fixed starting point and made ad hoc changes harder to merge. A-Zhen's next step was to organize open questions about the node software for her colleagues, then use the audit feedback to decide the order of changes. Whether the audit would find problems and when it would finish were still unknown.