On 01.08.2012 06:08, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012 um 02:41 schrieb Rob Weir: >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Keith N. McKenna >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> With the release of OSX Mountain Lion and its new Gatekeeper feature I >>> wanted to ask if any thought had been given by the community of applying to >>> Apple for a Developer ID. My limited understanding is that by signing the >>> installation files with the Developer ID it automatically unlocks the >>> gatekeeper and allows the application to run. Otherwise there is a short >>> process that one must go through to change the security settings for the >>> application allowing it to open. >>> >> >> We'd like to do code signing, not only for Mac but for Windows as >> well. Signed installers are the new normal and are expected by >> browser, anti-virus scanners and increasingly by operating systems. >> >> Although we have volunteers willing to do the build integration work, >> and funds available for acquiring certificates, we've been told that >> individual Apache projects may not do their own signing. The Apache >> Infrastructure team is trying to figure out some way that this can be >> done centrally. But no estimate for when this will happen. >> > exactly and at the moment we can only wait, I have no idea how we can help > further at the moment. Any ideas are welcome. > > In the meantime we should add a note about the new Gatekeeper of Mountain > Lion. It's a one time ctrl-click or opening via the context menu. After that > you can run it as normal without any further dialog from the system. > I tried it out and forget to take screenshot to document it. >From another opensource project: they are contemplating of using a digital key >service which would enable them to sign their code for Linux, MacOSX and Windows, http://codesigning.ksoftware.net/.. Maybe infra is attempting to do somehting like them, otherwise they could check them out (or other such services).
---rony
