Suggestion: github releases

[Adam Bishop]

On 17 Jul 2017, at 15:20, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> Ah. I think it's possible to generate the GPG sig locally after the tarball has been generated (and verified of course...) and then insert it into the release, but that is a bit of a faff I guess.
> 
> It's a shame there isn't some workflow here where the developer could sign a tag, then GH build a tarball of the signed tag, and sign the tarball with some kind of per-project key. Oh well.

The workflow is pretty simple - you either:
* create the release in draft form, download it for signing, then add the detached signature as a second binary.
* create the tarball locally using git archive (which should create a bit-for-bit clone of what GitHub will serve) then sign and upload the detached signature as a second binary.

Regards,

Adam Bishop

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