chicagofan sent the following on Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:10:00 -0500: > Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: > > Ant wrote: > >> Just curious. Why no code-signed releases? Is it because SeaMonkey is > >> not an official Mozilla product like Firefox and Thunderbird? > > That was the primary reason up until this year, due to no legal entity > > officially responsible for SeaMonkey, and with my non-employee status it > > was hard to coerce legal/magic to get us a code-signing cert. > > > > Within the last month or so, we *finally* have a code signing cert, > > which is in my possession. As an employee of Mozilla Corp now, we were > > able to shortcut one of the current legal hurdles while we try and prove > > that Signing works, reliably, and get stuff handled. > > > > Once that is done we can work on other legal aspects, as in who has > > access to the cert (besides me -- if anyone), if [and where] we can host > > a signing machine (like MoCo has for their infra) etc., right now it > > will be up to me. > > > > I was working this weekend on the ability to sign, as it is. We're not > > quite ready yet, but as soon as we are I'll publish a > > call-for-help/testing on signed binaries, (separately from the real > > release at first) > > > > Basic Things I'll need to test with this, include: > > * Does English and at least 1 other locale have signed files properly? > > [both installer and after-installed] > > * Does updates from unsigned->signed work correctly > > * Does updates from signed->signed work correctly > > > > Part of this is also getting Mac binaries signed with an Apple keychain. > > -- I have the key for that, but no knowledge on how/what to do yet [I > > have docs, but I'm focusing on Authenticode/Windows signing right now -- > > one hurdle at a time] > > > > - No hard ETA on any of it yet. > > > In case I haven't said it lately... thanks so much, Justin for > continuing to work on Seamonkey for all of us. It's still the best > there is in my book.
Agreed. Thanks to Justin and others from me, as well. Every setup has its advantages and disadvantages, but I remain very happy that I made the default switch to SeaMonkey back when I made the switch away from a T-bird/Firefox combo. -- Jim G. [Insert your favorite clever tagline here.] _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
