Hello Mark, +1 In my opinion this is exactly what Commons should be doing.
Regards, Benedikt Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> schrieb am Di., 23. Jan. 2018 um 07:34 Uhr: > All, > > As you may know, the ASF has been using a code signing service for a > number of years provided by Symantec. We use it to sign Commons Daemon > Windows binaries. > > The code signing service has a web based GUI and a SOAP based API. > Tomcat has written an Ant task to use the SOAP API and Sling has taken > this used and used it as the basis for a Maven plug-in. > > Currently, the Ant task is hosted within the Tomcat codebase and the > Maven plug-in within Sling. Both communities would like to move this to > a better home where it can more easily be re-used by other Apache > projects and other organisations using Symantec's code signing service. > > After some thought and discussion, we (Robert Munteanu and I) would like > to propose this code signing component as a new component at Commons. > Our reasons for this are as follows: > > - The code is written in Java > - It is a relatively small component > - It is a utility likely to be of interest to multiple Apache projects > - If it is going to be re-used across multiple projects, it needs to be > formally released and that requires a PMC > > If accepted the plan would be: > - commit the original Tomcat code for the Ant task > - refactor it to allow re-use of code common to the Ant task and Maven > plug-in > - add the Maven plug-in > - release it as a single JAR that provided both the Ant task and the > Maven plug-in > - Ongoing review and maintenance (there are a couple of areas that could > benefit from some improvement) > > Thoughts? Comments? > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
