Thank you for following up on this Chris! I filed a jira to update
releases.html: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2177

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Chris Nauroth
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Apache infra replied stating that this is working by design.  The hashes
> and signatures are not propagated to mirrors.  Instead, they reside only
> at apache.org.  That makes sense when you consider that a malicious mirror
> could host bad bits (i.e. containing backdoors) and then just provide a
> hash that matches that patched binary.  Instead, we state that the hashes
> and signatures come from apache.org.  As long as you trust the apache.org
> domain, you know that those hashes and signatures are trustworthy.
>
> A potential improvement would be to update releases.html to provide a
> hyperlink to the relevant spot in apache.org for hash and signature files.
>
> Infra also stated that the .mds file I mentioned for Hadoop is considered
> non-standard, and therefore not subject to this filtering for the mirrors.
>
> --Chris Nauroth
>
>
>
>
> On 4/29/15, 3:56 PM, "Chris Nauroth" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Thanks, Flavio.  I went ahead and filed the infra ticket:
>>
>>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-9556
>>
>>
>>--Chris Nauroth
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On 4/29/15, 3:16 PM, "Flavio Junqueira" <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>+1 to checking with infra.
>>>
>>>-Flavio
>>>
>>>> On 29 Apr 2015, at 23:09, Chris Nauroth <[email protected]>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For the sake of comparison to another Apache project, here is a mirror
>>>>of
>>>> Hadoop:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>http://www.webhostingreviewjam.com/mirror/apache/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.
>>>>7
>>>>.0
>>>> /
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The checksum information in the .mds file is mirrored, but the
>>>>signature
>>>> in the .asc file is not mirrored.  For ZooKeeper on that same mirror,
>>>>both
>>>> the signature and the checksum are missing:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>http://www.webhostingreviewjam.com/mirror/apache/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.5
>>>>.
>>>>0-
>>>> alpha/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not familiar with the details of the mirroring configuration.
>>>>Maybe
>>>> it's worth filing an INFRA ticket?
>>>>
>>>> --Chris Nauroth
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4/29/15, 2:47 PM, "Flavio Junqueira" <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> But is it expected that the signature files aren't propagated to the
>>>>> mirrors? I'd think that they should be propagated too.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Flavio
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 29 Apr 2015, at 19:29, Michi Mutsuzaki <[email protected]>
>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can find these files here: https://www.apache.org/dist/zookeeper/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess these files are not mirrored for security reasons.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Flavio Junqueira
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> That's weird, we definitely generate them for the RCs, and I'm quite
>>>>>>> sure were publishing them:
>>>>>>> http://people.apache.org/~fpj/zookeeper-3.4.6-candidate-0/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not sure what's going, and Pat Hunt might know about it. I'll
>>>>>>>see
>>>>>>> if I can find out more in the meanwhile.
>>>>>>> -Flavio
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 4:13 PM, ralph tice
>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was surprised to discover that releases haven't been published
>>>>>>>with
>>>>>>> MD5/etc signatures since 3.3.2.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this an intentional change by the project or an oversight?  Is
>>>>>>> there an
>>>>>>> alternative method of verifying integrity of releases?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --Ralph
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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