Mark, On 12/17/13, 7:24 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > The infrastructure team is about to start a trial of a code signing > service provided by Symantec. Tomcat is going to be the guinea pig for > this trial. As part of the trial we want to test the mapping of the > roles in the service to the roles at the ASF. We are therefore looking > for two volunteers. Both volunteers need to be Tomcat committers. At > least one of the volunteers needs to be a PMC member. > > My outline plan at the moment is something like: > - Set up the test signing service > - Figure out how to sign our Windows installer > - Script the process > - Get volunteer one (who will have RM permissions) to do a test release > - Get volunteer two (who will have PMC permissions) to approve the test > release for signing > > The idea is that any committer can be a release manager and upload a > release for signing but only a PMC member can approve the upload for > signing. Figuring out if that process is workable is part of the trial.
In theory, I'm willing to be a guinea pig's guinea pig. I've never rolled a release before. I do have Crossover (i.e. Wine) available on my Mac and some Windows VMs but I don't have any Windows-build capabilities -- at least not right now. Can I still be helpful? -chris
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