HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

Kurt Jaeger pi at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 23 12:15:14 UTC 2020


Hi!

> It's also hard to collect ALL the keys of the devs at any point in
> time to decide if that key is authorized to sign a commit in the
> repo...

We do have most of the keys in docs/share/pgpkeys/ plus history.

> Like if a dev starts in 2021, any commits made by that
> dev prior to 2021 should not be "valid"..  Then there's also the
> issue that people's keys change over time, and now you need to know
> what time period each key was valid for, otherwise a compromised key
> could be used to insert malicious changes into your/the tree...

If we manage keys plus their history in the doc repo, this seems
to be solved.

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