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----- Forwarded message from Mark Thomas <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:39:23 +0000 > From: Mark Thomas <markt@> > To: operations@ > Subject: Re: Path and name of KEYS file > Reply-To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > [A quoted person] wrote: > > [Who owns questions about the policy for pathnames of keyring files > > in dist/?] > > Since this stems from the release policy, I'd guess the Legal Affairs > committee. > > > [Each PMC should have a single keyring file, named "KEYS" and placed > > at the root of its dist/ tree.] > > I think that should be a strong recommendation (SHOULD) rather than a > hard requirement (MUST). > > The hard requirements are that the KEYS file is: > - linked from the download page > - contains the key(s) that signed the release(s) on the download page > - available to the mirror network > > If the project has a reason to locate the file elsewhere they should be > free to do so. > > Mark > ----- End forwarded message -----
