On 05/15/2012 11:04 AM, Philip Martin wrote:
> Philip Martin <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Please add your signatures to the .asc files there.
>> You can use the release.py script for this:
>>  release.py sign-candidates --target /path/to/dist/dev/subversion/wc 1.7.5
>> which is the equivalent of running the following command for each
>> tarball:
>>  gpg -ba -f - subversion-1.6.18.tar.bz2 >> subversion-1.6.18.tar.bz2.asc
> 
> I copied this from previous announcements but I'm not sure the release
> process is right here.  The "release.py sign-candidates" suggestion
> implies that we expect people to sign all the files but for previous
> releases, when I was not release manager, I only signed the Unix
> tarballs since that is what I tested.  If people sign all the files it
> makes it harder to determine whether we have the required number of
> Windows/Unix signatures.
> 
> We currently have 5 signatures on the Unix tarballs and 6 signatures on
> the Windows zip file but from the mails to dev I believe that 1.7.5
> still requires another "real" Windows signature.

I've never signed the Windows ZIP files, and don't see why I should when I
haven't personally verified their content.  I suspect Johan and Paul are the
only folks who've really tested the release on Windows.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Enterprise Cloud Development

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