On 13/07/2020 06:43, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2020-07-12, Rob Tompkins wrote:
> 
>> given the consistency of the signatures from the plugins…do we need to
>> check them for releases anymore?
> 
> Yes, please. Not everybody uses the plugins and even if everybody did a
> misconfiguration could be pulling in the wrong key or a key not
> available from the expected download location.

+1, for several reasons

It also catches corrupted uploads.

It is simpler to fix during a release vote than after a release where
we'd have to at least consider the possibility of malicious activity and
respond accordingly until we could prove it wasn't.

Mark

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