Skip to main content
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [List Home]
RE: [platform-releng-dev] Please sign here
Hi Kim -
 
I'm wondering whether it makes sense to sign the JARs for each and every build.
What about signing I- S- M- and R- builds only, but leave the N-builds unsigned?
 
As I understand, the 45-60 minutes that JAR signing takes for the Platform builds
is always done on build.eclipse.org. Which means that build.eclipse.org is slower
during that time for other work that other projects [like ours] need to perform.
 
I have experienced quite a big drop in performance working on build.eclipse.org
during the last week - up to a limit where it was really no fun working on that
machine any more. I'm not sure whether that was due to doing a lot of signing
on that machien (will ask the webmasters), but I'd not be surprised.
 
Thoughts?

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm

 

From: platform-releng-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:platform-releng-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kim Moir
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:07 AM
To: platform-releng-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [platform-releng-dev] Please sign here


As of tonight's build, all non-test plugins will be signed by the eclipse.org certificate as part of the build process.   With a few minor exceptions, teams will not have to do anything to their plugins to accommodate signing.  It will be handled transparently by the build process.  I'll open bugs against teams who may have specify options in their plugins to exclude certain jars from the signing process.

Signing our build allows meets one of the requirements for participation in Europa

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Europa_Simultaneous_Release#Must_Do

As well, it will appease the many who have asked  "Hey, why don't you sign your jars?" and the infamous "Why am I always prompted in update manager about  installing unsigned  jars?"

For more information about JAR signing, please refer to these fine documents written by the core team.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JAR_Signing
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JarProcessor_Options

The signing process takes 45-60 minutes to complete.  The time that the build process takes to generate the drops has increased accordingly.  

Kim

Back to the top