Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-29 Thread David Crossley
Thilo Goetz wrote: While I found good information on release signing on various Apache pages, I did not find corresponding information for users on what to do with the signature files. If anybody knows of such information, could you let me know so I can link to it from our pages. If

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-29 Thread Ted Husted
If it's helpful, the notes we are using for the Struts 2 release under Maven are here: * http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/creating-and-signing-a-distribution.html They are very specific, mainly because I'm getting on in years, and if we don't have specific notes, I forget how to do things :)

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-26 Thread Thilo Goetz
Thanks for the feedback. I have created INFRA-1133 (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1133) and attached a patch. Just a conservative extension, nothing revolutionary. Let me know what you think. --Thilo robert burrell donkin wrote: On 1/25/07, Yoav Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Thilo Goetz
Matthias Wessendorf wrote: Hi Thilo, I was also getting me into the signing and since we (the Trinidad podling) use Maven2, I found this useful as well http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-gpg-plugin/ -M Thanks, I'll check that out. The documentation is a bit on the short side. Does it

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
here it goes http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadbuild/maven-faces-plugin/incubator-m1-SNAPSHOT/ -M On 1/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Wessendorf wrote: Hi Thilo, I was also getting me into the signing and since we (the

Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Thilo Goetz
Hi, I have recently started to familiarize myself with release signing for the upcoming UIMA release. I have documented my experiences on our web site, for developers here: http://incubator.apache.org/uima/distribution.html (section Signing a distribution) and for users here:

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Thilo Goetz
Matthias Wessendorf wrote: here it goes http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadbuild/maven-faces-plugin/incubator-m1-SNAPSHOT/ Hi Matthias, you certainly have an abundance of signature files there.

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, That's cool, and very considerate of you to take the time to document your process. Thank you. However, I'm not sure that we need to duplicate what's already documented and followed by most ASF projects: http://www.apache.org/dev/#releases and its links. Instead, we should work to

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
Hi Thilo, I was also getting me into the signing and since we (the Trinidad podling) use Maven2, I found this useful as well http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-gpg-plugin/ -M On 1/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have recently started to familiarize myself with release

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
hello, I was wondering too, but it finally does something for maven-faces-plugin-incubator-m1-SNAPSHOT.jar.asc.md5 that's all I want for now. Perhaps I can exclude some of them in future ;) On 1/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Wessendorf wrote: here it goes

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Thilo Goetz
Yoav Shapira wrote: Hola, That's cool, and very considerate of you to take the time to document your process. Thank you. However, I'm not sure that we need to duplicate what's already documented and followed by most ASF projects: http://www.apache.org/dev/#releases and its links. Instead, we

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hola, On 1/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so what do you propose? The signing releases page does have all the info, but it's not very newbie friendly. I propose that instead of rewriting a new set of docs from scratch, you (or whoever is interested) submit patches against the

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 1/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Wessendorf wrote: here it goes http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadbuild/maven-faces-plugin/incubator-m1-SNAPSHOT/ Hi Matthias, you certainly have an abundance of signature files there.

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 1/25/07, Yoav Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, On 1/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so what do you propose? The signing releases page does have all the info, but it's not very newbie friendly. I propose that instead of rewriting a new set of docs from scratch, you (or

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 1/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yoav Shapira wrote: Hola, That's cool, and very considerate of you to take the time to document your process. Thank you. However, I'm not sure that we need to duplicate what's already documented and followed by most ASF projects:

Re: Write-up on release signing/verification

2007-01-25 Thread Leo Simons
On Jan 25, 2007, at 8:07 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote: On 1/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so what do you propose? please go ahead and create a patch :-) yay! We always need more (capable!) people to maintain these docs :) The apache website is maintained in xdoc form using