Re: [Bug Infrastructure/29643] New: Release upload process improvements

[Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org>]

mark at klomp dot org via Overseers <overseers@sourceware.org> writes:

> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29643
>
>             Bug ID: 29643
>            Summary: Release upload process improvements
>            Product: sourceware
>            Version: unspecified
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P2
>          Component: Infrastructure
>           Assignee: overseers at sourceware dot org
>           Reporter: mark at klomp dot org
>   Target Milestone: ---
>
> Projects that use https://sourceware.org/pub/ for releases need a shell account
> and are responsible for providing signatures themselves (although we do
> generate md5 and sha512 sums).
>
> It would be good to provide a release mechanism like:
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Automated-FTP-Uploads
> So no shell access is required and signatures are.

Is it better to comment on these in bugzilla? Apparently I never created
one, I just emailed, in the meantime, I'll reply here.

This is a great idea, and I suggest using the GNU FTP software. It is
unpublished currently, I think only because of momentum that it started
as a tiny script 16 years ago but we (FSF) could publish and/or share it
right away (just say the word). We recently had a volunteer audit the
code for security issues and have been working toward publish a release
that had all the documentation for other people to easily use it, but
that doesn't need to be perfect, we can just do it.

Right now, I see that GCC, GDB, GLIBC and Binutils are published both
places, so this seems like an obvious area for more
cooperation/coordination

For example, (and I would just open a separate bug for this, but I want
to get this off my chest): I notice that the sort order on
https://sourceware.org/pub/ is alphabetical instead of version ordering,
which is confusing. On the GNU FTP, we apparently get the right sort
ordering through debian's config,
/etc/apache2/mods-available/autoindex.conf, the line seems to be:

IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort HTMLTable NameWidth=* DescriptionWidth=* Charset=UTF-8,

the debian upstream repo for this config is
https://salsa.debian.org/apache-team/apache2 in the path
./debian/config-dir/mods-available/autoindex.conf

I suggest adding that line to the sourceware apache config.

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