Expanding the Web of trust in the Calcite community / PGP Key signing

2022-03-27 Thread Stamatis Zampetakis
Hi all, As it was brought up in the past few releases our web of trust [1] is not very strong. We're many members in the PMC, and many more in the broader community, but very few have signed each other's PGP keys. In most of the cases when I verify a release I will get a fair warning that the ke

Re: Expanding the Web of trust in the Calcite community / PGP Key signing

2022-03-27 Thread Francis Chuang
Hi Stamatis, Thanks for bringing this up. I think this is a good idea. I am in UTC+11 and will be in UTC+10 starting this Sunday. Regarding the warning from GPG, I think GPG does not trust the keys you add to its database by default. In order to get GPG to trust it, I think we need to sign a

Re: Expanding the Web of trust in the Calcite community / PGP Key signing

2022-03-28 Thread Stamatis Zampetakis
Hi Francis, Yes you are right. To remove the warning the release signing key needs to be either signed directly by myself or transitively through the notion of trust [1]. I am hoping that signing each other's keys will also make the warning disappear along with the other benefits. I am in UTC+2 b

Re: Expanding the Web of trust in the Calcite community / PGP Key signing

2022-03-28 Thread Ruben Q L
Hello, thanks Stamatis for starting this discussion. I agree with your proposals. I'm in UTC+1 right now (UTC in winter). Best, Ruben On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:22 AM Stamatis Zampetakis wrote: > Hi Francis, > > Yes you are right. To remove the warning the release signing key needs to > be ei