Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Peter Karman
Greg Stein wrote on 10/10/12 6:44 PM: > I've read this entire thread (whew!), and would actually like to throw out > a contrary position: > > No signed keys. +1 -- Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . pe...@peknet.com - To

Re: [DISCUSS] Jr. Mentor role

2012-10-10 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Hi! > > ever since Bigtop has incubated I've been thinking > about the experience that I've had and that it would > be very nice if I could help the new projects at least > 1/10th the amount of help I received from some of the > mentors. >

Re: [VOTE] Recommend to the Board to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-10 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
+1 (binding). Good luck Open Office'ers! :) Cheers, Chris On Oct 10, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Seeing no objections to my last message, and keeping into account that this > list had been regularly informed about the steps Apache OpenOffice was taking > towards graduation, I'm

Re: Tashi - report missing

2012-10-10 Thread Michael Stroucken
Craig L Russell wrote: Hi Jukka, The incubator report in wiki is immutable. Could you please amend the tashi report: Change "diogo" to "diego" Please don't, the gentleman's name is "Diogo", though I've misspelled it too on occasion. ;) Add me as mentor signed-off-by. Thanks, Michael. --

Re: Tashi - report missing

2012-10-10 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Jukka, The incubator report in wiki is immutable. Could you please amend the tashi report: Change "diogo" to "diego" Add me as mentor signed-off-by. Thanks, Craig On Oct 10, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Michael Stroucken wrote: Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi Tashi, Your board report for this month is

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Cordova podling from Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
On Oct 9, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Steven Gill wrote: > This is a call for vote to graduate the Cordova podling from Apache > Incubator. +1 (mentor) -- Gianugo Rabellino - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apac

Re: Tashi - report missing

2012-10-10 Thread Michael Stroucken
Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi Tashi, Your board report for this month is overdue. Please submit a report by tomorrow if possible, otherwise we can postpone your report to next month. Hi Jukka, Sorry for the delay, the report was submitted. I notice a total stop in list and commit activity since

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 21:40:18 -0400: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Daniel Shahaf > wrote: > > Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 21:14:15 -0400: > >... > >> My point is that our instructions to users don't really incorporoate > >> the notions of "keys", and (thus) p

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 21:14:15 -0400: >... >> My point is that our instructions to users don't really incorporoate >> the notions of "keys", and (thus) provide near-zero utility. For such > > So, provide better instructions

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 21:31:30 -0400: > Not too much. We still instruct users "take the signatures and verify > them against blah.apache.org/KEYS". John Blackhat could replace the > signatures and install his entry into KEYS. If you use https://people.apache.org/keys/ instead of

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 21:14:15 -0400: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Daniel Shahaf > wrote: > > Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 19:44:30 -0400: > >> I've read this entire thread (whew!), and would actually like to throw out > >> a contrary position: > >> > >> No si

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Ian Holsman wrote: > On Oct 11, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Greg Stein wrote: >> (assume secure Infrastructure) > > That's a pretty big assumption isn't it? Empirically, we've had break-ins, so we can assume it will happen again. But now you're talking that somebody has t

RE: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
There is value of the external signature for attesting something about the creation of the artifact. The digest simply demonstrates that the artifact is intact. I've already agreed that the signing of other people's certificate is not that valuable in the case of Apache releases. Because of t

RE: Preparing for the October reports

2012-10-10 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
>-Original Message- >From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:jukka.zitt...@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 7:28 PM >To: general >Subject: Re: Preparing for the October reports > >Hi, > >On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Jukka Zitting >wrote: >> It would be nice if we had all reviews read

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 19:44:30 -0400: >> I've read this entire thread (whew!), and would actually like to throw out >> a contrary position: >> >> No signed keys. >> >> Consider: releases come from the ASF, not a person. > >

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 19:44:30 -0400: > I've read this entire thread (whew!), and would actually like to throw out > a contrary position: > > No signed keys. > > Consider: releases come from the ASF, not a person. Therefore, releases should be signed by the ASF as an organisat

Re: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.2-incubating (Candidate 5)

2012-10-10 Thread Joe Stein
[3] +1 (binding) Alan, Jakob, Chris [1] +1 (non-binding) Jun [1] 0 (binding) Owen) [0] -1 the vote passes IPMC and with the PPMC vote already passsed [3] +1 (binding) Jun, Neha, Chris [1] +1 (non-binding) Joel [0] 0 [0] -1 0.7.2 is ready to ship i will push the release to the origin server a

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Ian Holsman wrote on Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:53:11 +1100: > > On Oct 11, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > > > > > (assume secure Infrastructure) > > That's a pretty big assumption isn't it? > There have been public instances where open source infrastructures have been > hacked, and rele

[DISCUSS] Jr. Mentor role

2012-10-10 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! ever since Bigtop has incubated I've been thinking about the experience that I've had and that it would be very nice if I could help the new projects at least 1/10th the amount of help I received from some of the mentors. Also, seeing a steady stream of graduating projects I would imagine tha

Re: [VOTE] Accept Helix into Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Ahmed Radwan
[ ] +1, bring Helix into Incubator (non-binding) On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:37 AM, kishore g wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to call a vote for accepting Helix for incubation in the > Apache Incubator. I have pasted the full proposal below. > > Please cast your vote: > > [ ] +1, bring Helix into Inc

Re: [VOTE] Accept Helix into Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Patrick Hunt
+1, bring Helix into Incubator (binding) Patrick On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:37 AM, kishore g wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to call a vote for accepting Helix for incubation in the > Apache Incubator. I have pasted the full proposal below. > > Please cast your vote: > > [ ] +1, bring Helix into In

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Ian Holsman
On Oct 11, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > > (assume secure Infrastructure) That's a pretty big assumption isn't it? There have been public instances where open source infrastructures have been hacked, and releases have been messed with. I think keys removes the need for the assumpti

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Greg Stein
I've read this entire thread (whew!), and would actually like to throw out a contrary position: No signed keys. Consider: releases come from the ASF, not a person. The RM builds the release artifacts and checks them into version control along with hash "checksums". Other PMC members validate the

Re: Preparing for the October reports

2012-10-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > It would be nice if we had all reviews ready by Tuesday, October 9th, > to give one extra day for unexpected delays. I'm again running a bit late on completing the Incubator report. I hope to have it finished and submitted already tomo

Re: Preparing for the October reports

2012-10-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, Thanks for the reviews, Benson! I added you as a signer-off on these reports. As reported and discussed, Kafka remains ready to graduate and will hopefully complete that transition shortly. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > ODFToolkit, on the other hand, seems to hav

Re: Preparing for the October reports

2012-10-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Jakob Homan wrote: > Following up, the Kafka-not-showing-any-new-people issue was a > documentation problem, not an actual one. We've fixed that and are > moving forward towards the graduation vote. Sounds great, thanks for the update! BR, Jukka Zitting --

Re: [VOTE] Recommend to the Board to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-10 Thread Andrew Rist
[ x ] +1, recommend the resolution to the Board That's a +1 (non-binding) Andrew On 10/10/2012 12:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Seeing no objections to my last message, and keeping into account that this list had been regularly informed about the steps Apache OpenOffice was taking towards gr

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Cordova podling from Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Steven Gill wrote: > This is a call for vote to graduate the Cordova podling from Apache > Incubator. [x] +1 Graduate Cordova podling from Apache Incubator (mentor) BR, Jukka Zitting -

Re: [VOTE] Recommend to the Board to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Seeing no objections to my last message, and keeping into account that this > list had been regularly informed about the steps Apache OpenOffice was > taking towards graduation, I'm hereby asking the IPMC to recommend the > following

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Cordova podling from Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Andrew Savory
Hi, On 9 October 2012 23:24, Steven Gill wrote: > This is a call for vote to graduate the Cordova podling from Apache > Incubator. > +1 Andrew. -- asav...@apache.org / cont...@andrewsavory.com http://www.andrewsavory.com/

Re: [VOTE] Accept Helix into Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:37 PM, kishore g wrote: > I would like to call a vote for accepting Helix for incubation in the > Apache Incubator. I have pasted the full proposal below. +1 (not binding) Thanks, Roman. - To unsubscr

Re: Rat report

2012-10-10 Thread Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez
Hi Craig, just committed some changes to address those concerns: - issues #1 and #2: added into NOTICE/LICENSE - #3: that comment is most probably there because it is a minified version, anyway, I've added the appropiate text in NOTICE - #4: more or less, the same issue as #3. We contacted the

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Nick Kew
On 10 Oct 2012, at 17:04, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > In my opinion, we have sufficient expertise here at the ASF to devise an > authentication protocol whose reliability exceeds that of individuals > participating unsupervised in a web of trust, particularly if the protocol > were to incorporate ar

Re: [VOTE] Accept Helix into Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:37 PM, kishore g wrote: > I would like to call a vote for accepting Helix for incubation in the > Apache Incubator. I have pasted the full proposal below. [x] +1, bring Helix into Incubator BR, Jukka Zitting -

Re: key signing - trust path check

2012-10-10 Thread Noah Slater
This is awesome! Unfortunately I (61D50B88) am not in the strong set. Bummer. :( On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > Anyone interested in details of PGP signing and tracing trust paths at the > ASF should say thank you to long-time member henkp who has done a ton of > work do

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Noah Slater
Most people develop their own key signing policy and publish it. Or organisations as a whole do, and ask their members to adhere to it. Something which we might want to consider formalising. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Just to be clear, I don't think I've ever sign

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Benson Margulies
Just to be clear, I don't think I've ever signed a key in my life. In part, because this criteria seem impossibly mushy. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Noah Slater
I've said it already in this thread, but I will say it one last time before I drop it. Archiving video provides zero benefits, beyond the human to human connection of seeing what somebody looks like. It provides no way to establish identity or ownership of email/keys that email does not already pro

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Noah Slater
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > I have friends who live far away. I know them well. I don't know their > key fingerprint. > > If we send emails or if we text back and forth I not clear that it is > them. If I have a video conference and the hold up the fingerprint I kn

Re: [VOTE] Accept Helix into Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Douglas
+1 (binding) -C On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:37 AM, kishore g wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to call a vote for accepting Helix for incubation in the > Apache Incubator. I have pasted the full proposal below. > > Please cast your vote: > > [ ] +1, bring Helix into Incubator > [ ] +0, I don't care eit

Re: Permission to publish Allura website?

2012-10-10 Thread sebb
On 10 October 2012 16:54, Rich Bowen wrote: > The Incubator docs state: > > The website is published by checking out the content from SVN into the > directory/www/incubator.apache.org/content/podlingname on people.apache.org. > > When I try to do this, I get > >> svn checkout https://svn.apache.o

Re: [VOTE] Accept Helix into Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Jakob Homan
Binding +1. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > +1 (binding) > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:37 AM, kishore g wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to call a vote for accepting Helix for incubation in the >> Apache Incubator. I have pasted the full proposal below. >> >> Please cast

Re: [VOTE] Accept Helix into Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Ted Dunning
+1 (binding) On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:37 AM, kishore g wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to call a vote for accepting Helix for incubation in the > Apache Incubator. I have pasted the full proposal below. > > Please cast your vote: > > [ ] +1, bring Helix into Incubator > [ ] +0, I don't care eithe

Rat report

2012-10-10 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Juan Pablo, The license update is looking very good. Thanks for pitching in and doing all this heavy lifting! I have some concerns with the files listed below. 1. The SilkIconSet images are licensed under CC-attribution 2.5 license. The NOTICE needs to accommodate the comment from the s

Re: [PROPOSAL] Helix for the Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Mahadev Konar
The proposal looks good. Thanks mahadev On Oct 9, 2012, at 5:47 PM, kishore g wrote: > Hello, > > The proposal is fixed http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/HelixProposal. > > We have also made the Github link public. > > Home Page: http://linkedin.github.com/helix/ > Github source: https://githu

[VOTE] Recommend to the Board to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Seeing no objections to my last message, and keeping into account that this list had been regularly informed about the steps Apache OpenOffice was taking towards graduation, I'm hereby asking the IPMC to recommend the following resolution to the Board. Aim of the resolution is to establish the

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Florian Holeczek
Hi Marvin, > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Florian Holeczek wrote: >> However, what would now be totally wrong IMO is, that some guys in the ASF >> redefine these rules in order to make the process of release signing more >> simple. In the WoT big picture, this would automatically mean that ev

Re: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.2-incubating (Candidate 5)

2012-10-10 Thread Owen O'Malley
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Joe Stein wrote: > I would like to keep the vote open for another few days to give the IPMC > members time to review and vote, thanks. Joe, Could you update your gpg key: * set it in id.apache.org * get someone who knows you to sign it. WIthout a signed key t

RE: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Just for completeness for building an understanding what I have been capitalizing as the Apache Trust Chain: 1. There must also be understanding of the cert expiration and cert revocation cases. 2. As a demonstration for how it all comes down to the Apache logon for committers, consider the

[VOTE] Accept Helix into Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread kishore g
Hi, I would like to call a vote for accepting Helix for incubation in the Apache Incubator. I have pasted the full proposal below. Please cast your vote: [ ] +1, bring Helix into Incubator [ ] +0, I don't care either way, [ ] -1, do not bring Helix into Incubator, because ... This vote will be

RE: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 An Apache CA would also be handy for setting up code signing (the kind carried in the code package and recognized by operating systems, not an external signature of the kind being discussed here). To clarify one aspect of the Apache Trust Chain. It is not about email. It is about the publi

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Florian Holeczek wrote: > However, what would now be totally wrong IMO is, that some guys in the ASF > redefine these rules in order to make the process of release signing more > simple. In the WoT big picture, this would automatically mean that every key > that is

Permission to publish Allura website?

2012-10-10 Thread Rich Bowen
The Incubator docs state: The website is published by checking out the content from SVN into the directory/www/incubator.apache.org/content/podlingname on people.apache.org. When I try to do this, I get > svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/allura/site allura svn: E13:

Re: Proposed resolution: Establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-10 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > The Apache OpenOffice PPMC and Community believe the project is ready to > graduate to a Top Level Project. > > Multiple steps were taken in this direction, including: > - Community vote to start graduation process: http://s.apache.org/e7F >

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Nick Kew wrote: > > On 10 Oct 2012, at 12:20, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> Nick: On the one hand, how is trusting the Apache process better or >> worse than trusting the State of Massachusetts? > > When I sign a key I'm basing it on more information than that. Exa

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Florian Holeczek
Hi Benson, > A different angle. > > Noah asks me to sign his key. > > Noah tells me that he's committed it to KEYS for CloudStack in svn > revision 314159. > > I examine that revision and see that it was made by, indeed, noah's > Apache ID, which is associated with a particular email address. >

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Nick Kew
On 10 Oct 2012, at 12:20, Benson Margulies wrote: > Nick: On the one hand, how is trusting the Apache process better or > worse than trusting the State of Massachusetts? When I sign a key I'm basing it on more information than that. Either it's a one-off, when I have additional knowledge of som

Re: [VOTE] Release Kafka 0.7.2-incubating (Candidate 5)

2012-10-10 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
+1 binding Regards, Alan On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Joe Stein wrote: > Hello, > > Kafka Incubator has passed the vote for 0.7.2 RC5 > http://www.mail-archive.com/kafka-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg04980.html > > I would like to call a vote now from the IPMC. > > This is the fifth candidate f

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 10 October 2012 15:20, Ted Dunning wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 10, 2012, at 2:47 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > > > Can you clarify? I understand that being able to speak to someone face to > > face, and seeing their mannerisms and expressions, allows you to > understand > > them be

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Ted Dunning
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 10, 2012, at 2:47 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > Can you clarify? I understand that being able to speak to someone face to > face, and seeing their mannerisms and expressions, allows you to understand > them better. Some deep rooted human thing. But how does this impact >

Re: key signing - trust path check

2012-10-10 Thread Shane Curcuru
Anyone interested in details of PGP signing and tracing trust paths at the ASF should say thank you to long-time member henkp who has done a ton of work documenting and verifying release signing and keys: https://people.apache.org/~henkp/trust/ - Shane On 10/8/2012 6:37 PM, Noah Slater wrot

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Shane Curcuru
Comments: - For many people, ensuring that the human who holds a specific key is the same one who has been using the j...@doe.foo email address and the john...@apache.org SVN/GIT account over a period of time is what is most important. Less important is ensuring that that human's legal name i

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Nick Kew wrote: > > On 10 Oct 2012, at 11:25, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> I then feel that it's perfectly reasonable to sign a key that has two >> things in it: the name Noah Slater and nsla...@apache.org, because if >> this process doesn't verify an adequate asso

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Nick Kew
On 10 Oct 2012, at 11:25, Benson Margulies wrote: > I then feel that it's perfectly reasonable to sign a key that has two > things in it: the name Noah Slater and nsla...@apache.org, because if > this process doesn't verify an adequate association, then no one can > trust the Apache IP process, e

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Benson Margulies
A different angle. Noah asks me to sign his key. Noah tells me that he's committed it to KEYS for CloudStack in svn revision 314159. I examine that revision and see that it was made by, indeed, noah's Apache ID, which is associated with a particular email address. I send email to secretary@, as

Re: key signing

2012-10-10 Thread Noah Slater
Can you clarify? I understand that being able to speak to someone face to face, and seeing their mannerisms and expressions, allows you to understand them better. Some deep rooted human thing. But how does this impact security or trust, in the context of key signing? On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:00 A

Re: [VOTE] Graduate Cordova podling from Apache Incubator

2012-10-10 Thread Christian Grobmeier
+1 (ipmc) You Cordova guys did a great job, imho! On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Steven Gill wrote: > Argh! Thanks for the catch Dan. I was using the Isis vote thread as a > template to create this one. > > Please cast your votes: > > [ ] +1 Graduate Cordova podling from Apache Incubator [ ]