RE: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > However, I do not believe that signing should be done on minotaur. It > > should be done on the Release Manager's personal system where (s)he has > > control over the private key. I don't like the idea of having private keys > > on minotaur. > To be argumentative, shouldn't Apache have contr

RE: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Henri Yandell wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > See: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?SigningReleases > The Jakarta Commons release docs need to link to this doc. Or at least > include the 'how to create a key' section. Very useful at getting me > started on gpg q

RE: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-02 Thread Henri Yandell
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > See: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?SigningReleases > > PGP is mentioned, but not elaborated upon. I wrote the GPG instructions. > Someone who uses PGP should contribute the matching instructions. > > However, I do not believe that sign

Re: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-01 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > md5sum should be changed to md5 You could also simply use Ant's task instead. It can generate md5 (and other) checksums without any native executable. I don't think md5sum is Linux specific. md5sum comes from the GNU textutils AFA

RE: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-01 Thread Henri Yandell
Is this due to security, or a personal preference? I only use this particular PGP key for building apache builds, so storing on the apache server is a nice management concept for myself. I mean to use PGP for emails someday, but would probably use a different one. Hen On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Noel J

RE: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I would prefer the instructions be usable on cvs.apache.org > rather than minotaur, as far less people have minotaur > accounts and all committers have cvs accounts. cvs.apache.org == minotaur --- Noel - To unsubscribe

RE: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-01 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> i'm happy for the instructions to advocate using minotaur to store code > signing keys and to perform code signing I'm not. As a voting matter, I'd be -1 (policy, not veto) for storing private keys on the server. --- Noel --

Re: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-01 Thread robert burrell donkin
minotaur is now serves cvs and www. i'm happy for the instructions to advocate using minotaur to store code signing keys and to perform code signing and summing provided that infrastructure are cool about this too. anyone want to volunteer to check with infrastructure? - robert On Monday, Sep

Re: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-01 Thread Yoav Shapira
Howdy, Yup, good suggetions that had me stuck for a minute or two looking for gpg/md5sum on cvs.apache.org. I would prefer the instructions be usable on cvs.apache.org rather than minotaur, as far less people have minotaur accounts and all committers have cvs accounts. Yoav Shapira On Mon, 1 Sep

Re: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-01 Thread Henri Yandell
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, robert burrell donkin wrote: > On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 10:21 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > Couple of points. Signing suggests gpg and summing suggests md5sum. These > > are both linux tools and as Apache doesn't have any linux boxes it makes > > more sense to me if

Re: [doc] how to release - feedback

2003-09-01 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 10:21 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: Couple of points. Signing suggests gpg and summing suggests md5sum. These are both linux tools and as Apache doesn't have any linux boxes it makes more sense to me if the instructions are usable on Minotaur. i've always been very relu