[CC += infra] Hyrum K Wright wrote on Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:08:26 -0600: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: > > Currently we publish releases by uploading them to a specified directory > > on scp://people.apache.org/. > > > > Infra would like to move from this model to a model where releases are > > stored in a Subversion repository[1]. > > > > I suggest that we join a few other PMC's who had already converted. The > > impact on us is that we'll be uploading releases by committing to > > [1]/subversion, rather than by scp'ing them. It will also shorten the > > wait period on mirroring new releases from 25 hours to 24 hours. > > > > Barring objections I'll follow up with infra in a few days to make this > > happen. > > That would be awesome. Despite my past obstinacy, I'm particularly > attracted to the part where PMC members would be able to directly > commit their signatures to the release area, where something (an > svnpubsub instance?) then verifies the sigs. >
+1. As to the implementation: we could run something off of svnpubsub to verify the signatures, but I wonder if it'd make more sense to do that ASF-wide in the pre-commit hook on dist.apache.org. Infra people --- thoughts? > In addition to working with Infra, release.py would probably need to be > updated. > > -Hyrum > > > -- > > uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy > http://www.uberSVN.com/
