- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:46:57 +0200
- To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- CC: public-sysapps@w3.org
On 02/04/2013 13:30 , Dave Raggett wrote: > I would like to hear more about the issues around using signing. I don't want to cast undue aspersions as to various ways in which signing may be used in SysApps. It's just that as a developer, my experience with anything that has required signing (and for which I've been in the loop, as opposed to it happening under the hood somewhere) has been nothing short of appalling. As a result, when someone mentions signing, it's not so much that I start shooting immediately. But I certainly angle my chair so as to slightly draw open the curtains that normally hide the Angry Developer Gun Rack behind me. It might be that it's mostly been a tooling issue. Signing is not something you would normally do by hand, so it's always tool-leveraged. It's therefore possible that my experience (and, I'm sure, that of others) stems from the tools being terrible; and it might therefore be possible to have non-horrible tools for this. Switching from developer to standardista hat, my experience has also been that there is a class of issues for which people just immediately say "Yay, let's use signatures!!!!" So I'm just being wary. I understand that signing might be required in places, but I am leery of making it required unless we're really, really sure there is no alternative. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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