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From: "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <chris.a.mattmann@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:39:14 -0700
Subject: Re: KEYS and releases
Thread-Topic: KEYS and releases
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Thanks Bertrand!

Cheers,
Chris

On Jun 28, 2011, at 1:29 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
> <chris.a.mattmann@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>> Yep, makes sense. Like I told Benson, I wasn't exactly sure if the mirro=
ring system were read only downstream of the Apache root sources (IOW, I th=
ought we had more control then in reality we did).
>>=20
>> BTW, if someone could point me to a document where this is described, th=
at would certainly help me refer it to others in the future....
>=20
> The mirroring docs are at
> http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html AFAIK, and in any case
> we cannot trust mirrors of Apache software as we don't control them.
>=20
> Hence the need for people to download KEYS files from an *.apache.org
> domain that we do control. Putting KEYS in a distribution might cause
> people to use them instead of getting them from a trusted source, and
> that's bad.
>=20
> -Bertrand
>=20
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