[platform-dev] Signed content

[Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am assume from observation that the platform team has decided to change its signing policy to not physically sign some jars anymore:

  https://download.eclipse.org/oomph/archive/reports/download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.20-I-builds/index.html

This of course propagates to SimRel:

  https://download.eclipse.org/oomph/archive/reports/download.eclipse.org/staging/2021-06/index.html

I don't recall a Planning Council policy decision to drop/change the need for signed jars.  I don't know the full impact this has on the installer nor on consumers.   The installer at least appears to happily install such things and the IDE presents such things to the user as if they are signed:

Slowly I get the feeling that SimRel is a no longer process where we all work together as a team.  Rather it feels as if the platform team can and does unilaterally make decisions for everyone else.

Regards,
Ed