On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:37:09PM -0400, Shane Curcuru wrote:
> Is it just me, or don't we have a policy that all software distributions 
> should be PGP/GPG or equivalently signed with the release manager's key?  
> 8-)
>
> Admittedly, plus points to Forrest and Xindice since they've already moved 
> their distributions to the mirroring system at 
> www.apache.org/dist/xml/[subproject].  But I'd really like to see future 
> releases also get signed before they're put on the distro site.

The latest Forrest 0.5 release has been signed:

-bash-2.05b$ pwd        
/www/www.apache.org/dist/xml/forrest
-bash-2.05b$ pgp < KEYS 
...
...
-bash-2.05b$ pgp apache-forrest-current-bin.tar.gz.asc 
apache-forrest-current-bin.tar.gz
Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.8
Internal development version only - not for general release.
(c) 1999 Network Associates Inc.

Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.

File 'apache-forrest-current-bin.tar.gz.asc' has signature, but with no text.
Text is assumed to be in file 'apache-forrest-current-bin.tar.gz'.
Good signature from user "Jeff Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>".
Signature made 2003/09/13 04:42 GMT

WARNING:  Because this public key is not certified with a trusted
signature, it is not known with high confidence that this public key
actually belongs to: "Jeff Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>".


--Jeff

> 
> Thanks,
> Shane
> 

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