First attempt: did a test signing of the 8 jars in the plugin dir.  Didn't
succeed - Looks like maybe you need to sign the Jars used for features too.  I'm
trying that next.  -Marshall


On 10/10/2017 11:43 AM, Marshall Schor wrote:
> one improvement - will document shortly on website:
>
>   skip step 1 - no need to "prepare-to-sign".
>
> Instead, (after a small fix to the normal build) take all the Jars in the
> target/eus-work/plugins that are *.jar files, and sign these.
>
> This is of course, better, in that it doesn't "rebuild them".
>
> -Marshall
>
>
> On 10/10/2017 11:34 AM, Marshall Schor wrote:
>> I've documented a proposed approach on the website:
>> https://uima.apache.org/dev-eclipse-plugin-signing
>>
>> This can also be reached from the
>>   home page ->
>>     (left nav bar) Eclipse Update Sites ->
>>       Information for developers ->
>>         information about plugin signing
>>
>> The basic idea is a 2 phase approach - the first phase is normal, like now, 
>> no
>> signing, producing the release candidate to vote on.  Once the Vote passes, 
>> then
>> a simple/mechanical repackaging of the update site is done, including 
>> signing,
>> with just a sanity check at the end that the result installs:
>>
>>   1. run the ant script "prepare-to-sign"
>>   2. manually sign on to the signing portal, upload the jars in
>> target/eus-work/plugins, sign them, and download the signed jars to
>> target/eus-work-signed/plugins
>>   3. run the ant script "finish-after-signing"
>>
>> This avoids charging Apache for signing for release candidates that 
>> subsequently
>> fail.  Because the actions following the vote are only mechanical "binary"
>> packaging, I think we don't need another vote. 
>>
>> I'm working on making the ant scripts for this, using the uimaj-v3 as the 
>> guinea
>> pig.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> -Marshall
>>
>>
>

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