Putting the KEYS in dis folder is used to verify the signature of the
release artifacts.

I think it is more used for convenience since Eagle already have group sig
file at https://people.apache.org/keys/group/eagle.asc

- Henry

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Michael Wu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Hemanth,
>
> Reading your WIKI of release process, I've merged my gpg-pub-key into KEYS
> file, and have committed it to svn, which is visible at
> http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/eagle/.
>
> However, I got confused on step-14 at below fragment, see:
> *********************
> ......
> Once this file has been updated, you need to publish it in the appropriate
> dist directory for the project on http://www.apache.org/dist. To do this,
> you must copy the file as follows:
>       $ scp KEYS people.apache.org:/www/
> www.apache.org/dist/incubator/eagle/KEYS
>       <http://org/www/www.apache.org/dist/incubator/sentry/KEYS>
> ......
> *********************
>
> My question is, now that the KEYS has been committed to svn, what's the use
> this fragment? Will it block releasing if I ignore it? Also, what does it
> mean in the angle bracket pair "<>", do you mean we have to scp the KEYS to
> the 2 urls, both?
>
> Thanks.
> Michael
>

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