Case 508
Full compliance was reached by changing the denominator
full_compliance_was_reached_by_changing_the_denominator.eml - A security standard reached 100% compliance. How many repositories changed and how many left the denominator are counted separately below.
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eml# Self-authored for the EML case corpus (no external origin). A security
# standard reached 100% compliance. How many repositories changed and how many
# left the denominator are counted separately below.
#
# Archiving those repositories was correct. They had no owning team, no commits
# in over a year, and carrying them in every audit was costing real review time
# on code nobody was going to touch. Somebody made a clean decision about dead
# weight and the audit got faster.
#
# Compliance is a ratio, and a ratio moves when either half moves. Archiving
# changes the denominator without touching the code, so the same repositories
# in the same state produce a different percentage. Whether the archived ones
# still run is a separate fact from whether they are counted.
#
# Both halves are counted below.
# [repo, compliant, commits in the last year, archived, still deployed, requests per day]
[["gateway", "yes", 412, "no", "yes", 9000000], ["billing", "yes", 380, "no", "yes", 900000], ["catalog", "yes", 250, "no", "yes", 4000000], ["notifier", "yes", 90, "no", "yes", 120000], ["reporting", "yes", 66, "no", "yes", 40000], ["legacy-import", "no", 0, "yes", "yes", 22000], ["partner-sync", "no", 0, "yes", "yes", 8000], ["old-admin", "no", 0, "yes", "yes", 300], ["batch-tools", "no", 2, "yes", "no", 0], ["scratch-etl", "no", 0, "yes", "no", 0]] => repos
len(repos) => n
"repo compliant commits/yr archived deployed requests/day" ^0
for r in repos:
" " + r[0] + " " + r[1] + " " + str(r[2]) + " " + r[3] + " " + r[4] + " " + str(r[5]) ^0
"" ^0
0 => compliant
0 => archived
0 => in_scope
0 => in_scope_compliant
for r in repos:
if r[1] == "yes":
compliant + 1 => compliant
if r[3] == "yes":
archived + 1 => archived
else:
in_scope + 1 => in_scope
if r[1] == "yes":
in_scope_compliant + 1 => in_scope_compliant
"repositories : " + str(n) ^0
"compliant : " + str(compliant) ^0
"archived : " + str(archived) ^0
"in scope after archiving : " + str(in_scope) ^0
"" ^0
"the ratio, both ways" ^0
" over every repository : " + str(compliant) + " of " + str(n) + " = " + str(int(compliant * 100 / n)) + "%" ^0
" over in-scope only : " + str(in_scope_compliant) + " of " + str(in_scope) + " = " + str(int(in_scope_compliant * 100 / in_scope)) + "%" ^0
" repositories whose code changed : 0" ^0
" the metric moved " + str(int(in_scope_compliant * 100 / in_scope) - int(compliant * 100 / n)) + " points on a change to the denominator" ^0
"" ^0
# ---- what is behind the archive flag ----
0 => arch_deployed
0 => arch_traffic
for r in repos:
if r[3] == "yes":
if r[4] == "yes":
arch_deployed + 1 => arch_deployed
arch_traffic + r[5] => arch_traffic
"the " + str(archived) + " archived repositories" ^0
" still deployed : " + str(arch_deployed) ^0
" requests they serve : " + str(arch_traffic) + " a day" ^0
" compliant : 0" ^0
for r in repos:
if r[3] == "yes":
if r[4] == "yes":
" " + r[0] + " : " + str(r[5]) + " requests a day, not compliant, not counted" ^0
" archiving a repository stops it being audited and does not stop it" ^0
" receiving requests" ^0
"" ^0
# ---- traffic inside and outside the denominator ----
0 => scope_traffic
for r in repos:
if r[3] == "no":
scope_traffic + r[5] => scope_traffic
0 => all_traffic
for r in repos:
all_traffic + r[5] => all_traffic
"requests per day, by whether the repository is audited" ^0
" audited : " + str(scope_traffic) ^0
" not audited : " + str(arch_traffic) ^0
" total : " + str(all_traffic) ^0
" the unaudited share is " + str(int(arch_traffic * 1000000 / all_traffic)) + " requests per million," ^0
" a unit fine enough not to floor to zero the way a percentage does here" ^0
" a small share of traffic, and it is the whole of the non-compliant code" ^0
"" ^0
# ---- the two repositories that really are dead ----
0 => truly_dead
for r in repos:
if r[3] == "yes":
if r[4] == "no":
truly_dead + 1 => truly_dead
" " + r[0] + " : archived, not deployed, " + str(r[5]) + " requests" ^0
"repositories where archiving matched reality : " + str(truly_dead) + " of " + str(archived) ^0
" for these the archive flag and the facts agree, and removing them from" ^0
" the audit removes nothing" ^0
" for the other " + str(archived - truly_dead) + " it removes " + str(arch_traffic) + " requests a day from view" ^0
"" ^0
# ---- what a traffic-weighted metric would say ----
"the same standard, weighted by requests served" ^0
0 => compliant_traffic
for r in repos:
if r[1] == "yes":
compliant_traffic + r[5] => compliant_traffic
" requests served by compliant code : " + str(compliant_traffic) ^0
" requests served by all code : " + str(all_traffic) ^0
" compliance by traffic : " + str(int(compliant_traffic * 100 / all_traffic)) + "%" ^0
" by repository count, in scope : " + str(int(in_scope_compliant * 100 / in_scope)) + "%" ^0
" by repository count, everything : " + str(int(compliant * 100 / n)) + "%" ^0
" three defensible numbers for one standard, and the reporting picked one" ^0
"" ^0
# ---- the control: a repository that was actually fixed ----
#
# Where a repository moves from non-compliant to compliant by changing, the
# ratio moves for the reason the ratio is supposed to move.
[["reporting", "no", "yes", 66, 40000]] => fixed
for f in fixed:
"control - " + f[0] + " before and after the work" ^0
" before : compliant " + f[1] + ", after : compliant " + f[2] ^0
" commits in the year : " + str(f[3]) + ", requests a day : " + str(f[4]) ^0
" denominator before and after : " + str(in_scope) + " and " + str(in_scope) ^0
" here one repository changed and the ratio moved by one repository," ^0
" which is the only movement that survives asking what changed" ^0
"" ^0
"Archiving unowned code with no commits in a year was the right call and the" ^0
"audit really is faster. " + str(arch_deployed) + " of the " + str(archived) + " archived repositories still serve" ^0
str(arch_traffic) + " requests a day, and none of them are in the 100%." ^0Python (deterministic transpilation)
pythonrepos = [["gateway", "yes", 412, "no", "yes", 9000000], ["billing", "yes", 380, "no", "yes", 900000], ["catalog", "yes", 250, "no", "yes", 4000000], ["notifier", "yes", 90, "no", "yes", 120000], ["reporting", "yes", 66, "no", "yes", 40000], ["legacy-import", "no", 0, "yes", "yes", 22000], ["partner-sync", "no", 0, "yes", "yes", 8000], ["old-admin", "no", 0, "yes", "yes", 300], ["batch-tools", "no", 2, "yes", "no", 0], ["scratch-etl", "no", 0, "yes", "no", 0]]
n = len(repos)
print("repo compliant commits/yr archived deployed requests/day")
for r in repos:
print(" " + r[0] + " " + r[1] + " " + str(r[2]) + " " + r[3] + " " + r[4] + " " + str(r[5]))
print("")
compliant = 0
archived = 0
in_scope = 0
in_scope_compliant = 0
for r in repos:
if r[1] == "yes":
compliant = compliant + 1
if r[3] == "yes":
archived = archived + 1
else:
in_scope = in_scope + 1
if r[1] == "yes":
in_scope_compliant = in_scope_compliant + 1
print("repositories : " + str(n))
print("compliant : " + str(compliant))
print("archived : " + str(archived))
print("in scope after archiving : " + str(in_scope))
print("")
print("the ratio, both ways")
print(" over every repository : " + str(compliant) + " of " + str(n) + " = " + str(int(compliant * 100 / n)) + "%")
print(" over in-scope only : " + str(in_scope_compliant) + " of " + str(in_scope) + " = " + str(int(in_scope_compliant * 100 / in_scope)) + "%")
print(" repositories whose code changed : 0")
print(" the metric moved " + str(int(in_scope_compliant * 100 / in_scope) - int(compliant * 100 / n)) + " points on a change to the denominator")
print("")
arch_deployed = 0
arch_traffic = 0
for r in repos:
if r[3] == "yes":
if r[4] == "yes":
arch_deployed = arch_deployed + 1
arch_traffic = arch_traffic + r[5]
print("the " + str(archived) + " archived repositories")
print(" still deployed : " + str(arch_deployed))
print(" requests they serve : " + str(arch_traffic) + " a day")
print(" compliant : 0")
for r in repos:
if r[3] == "yes":
if r[4] == "yes":
print(" " + r[0] + " : " + str(r[5]) + " requests a day, not compliant, not counted")
print(" archiving a repository stops it being audited and does not stop it")
print(" receiving requests")
print("")
scope_traffic = 0
for r in repos:
if r[3] == "no":
scope_traffic = scope_traffic + r[5]
all_traffic = 0
for r in repos:
all_traffic = all_traffic + r[5]
print("requests per day, by whether the repository is audited")
print(" audited : " + str(scope_traffic))
print(" not audited : " + str(arch_traffic))
print(" total : " + str(all_traffic))
print(" the unaudited share is " + str(int(arch_traffic * 1000000 / all_traffic)) + " requests per million,")
print(" a unit fine enough not to floor to zero the way a percentage does here")
print(" a small share of traffic, and it is the whole of the non-compliant code")
print("")
truly_dead = 0
for r in repos:
if r[3] == "yes":
if r[4] == "no":
truly_dead = truly_dead + 1
print(" " + r[0] + " : archived, not deployed, " + str(r[5]) + " requests")
print("repositories where archiving matched reality : " + str(truly_dead) + " of " + str(archived))
print(" for these the archive flag and the facts agree, and removing them from")
print(" the audit removes nothing")
print(" for the other " + str(archived - truly_dead) + " it removes " + str(arch_traffic) + " requests a day from view")
print("")
print("the same standard, weighted by requests served")
compliant_traffic = 0
for r in repos:
if r[1] == "yes":
compliant_traffic = compliant_traffic + r[5]
print(" requests served by compliant code : " + str(compliant_traffic))
print(" requests served by all code : " + str(all_traffic))
print(" compliance by traffic : " + str(int(compliant_traffic * 100 / all_traffic)) + "%")
print(" by repository count, in scope : " + str(int(in_scope_compliant * 100 / in_scope)) + "%")
print(" by repository count, everything : " + str(int(compliant * 100 / n)) + "%")
print(" three defensible numbers for one standard, and the reporting picked one")
print("")
fixed = [["reporting", "no", "yes", 66, 40000]]
for f in fixed:
print("control - " + f[0] + " before and after the work")
print(" before : compliant " + f[1] + ", after : compliant " + f[2])
print(" commits in the year : " + str(f[3]) + ", requests a day : " + str(f[4]))
print(" denominator before and after : " + str(in_scope) + " and " + str(in_scope))
print(" here one repository changed and the ratio moved by one repository,")
print(" which is the only movement that survives asking what changed")
print("")
print("Archiving unowned code with no commits in a year was the right call and the")
print("audit really is faster. " + str(arch_deployed) + " of the " + str(archived) + " archived repositories still serve")
print(str(arch_traffic) + " requests a day, and none of them are in the 100%.")stdout (executed)
textrepo compliant commits/yr archived deployed requests/day
gateway yes 412 no yes 9000000
billing yes 380 no yes 900000
catalog yes 250 no yes 4000000
notifier yes 90 no yes 120000
reporting yes 66 no yes 40000
legacy-import no 0 yes yes 22000
partner-sync no 0 yes yes 8000
old-admin no 0 yes yes 300
batch-tools no 2 yes no 0
scratch-etl no 0 yes no 0
repositories : 10
compliant : 5
archived : 5
in scope after archiving : 5
the ratio, both ways
over every repository : 5 of 10 = 50%
over in-scope only : 5 of 5 = 100%
repositories whose code changed : 0
the metric moved 50 points on a change to the denominator
the 5 archived repositories
still deployed : 3
requests they serve : 30300 a day
compliant : 0
legacy-import : 22000 requests a day, not compliant, not counted
partner-sync : 8000 requests a day, not compliant, not counted
old-admin : 300 requests a day, not compliant, not counted
archiving a repository stops it being audited and does not stop it
receiving requests
requests per day, by whether the repository is audited
audited : 14060000
not audited : 30300
total : 14090300
the unaudited share is 2150 requests per million,
a unit fine enough not to floor to zero the way a percentage does here
a small share of traffic, and it is the whole of the non-compliant code
batch-tools : archived, not deployed, 0 requests
scratch-etl : archived, not deployed, 0 requests
repositories where archiving matched reality : 2 of 5
for these the archive flag and the facts agree, and removing them from
the audit removes nothing
for the other 3 it removes 30300 requests a day from view
the same standard, weighted by requests served
requests served by compliant code : 14060000
requests served by all code : 14090300
compliance by traffic : 99%
by repository count, in scope : 100%
by repository count, everything : 50%
three defensible numbers for one standard, and the reporting picked one
control - reporting before and after the work
before : compliant no, after : compliant yes
commits in the year : 66, requests a day : 40000
denominator before and after : 5 and 5
here one repository changed and the ratio moved by one repository,
which is the only movement that survives asking what changed
Archiving unowned code with no commits in a year was the right call and the
audit really is faster. 3 of the 5 archived repositories still serve
30300 requests a day, and none of them are in the 100%.Trace event types
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