From etcd-dev discussion:
https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/etcd-dev/c/oMGSBqs_7sc
I have been working on this system called Asset Transparency[1] which
helps users verify they have received the correct contents from a URL.
If you are familiar with the "download a file, download a SHA256SUM
file, run `sha256sum -c`, etc" process? This tool helps to automate
that for users into something like this[2]:
$ tl get https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/download/v3.4.12/etcd-v3.4.12-darwin-amd64.zip
And a best practice for this Asset Transparency system is that URLs
are registered with the log as soon as possible. Why? Well, the sooner
a URL is entered the longer it can protect people consuming a URL from
unexpected content modification from say a GitHub credential
compromise.
To that end I have written a GitHub Action[3] that will automatically
do that on every release. It is easy to activate and should be hands
free after installation. So, before I enable it I want to see if there
are any concerns from maintainers. The only change to our repo will be
a new file in .github/workflows.
[1] https://www.transparencylog.com
[2] https://github.com/transparencylog/tl
[3] https://github.com/transparencylog/publish-releases-asset-transparency-action
There are open issues and pull requests that are years old on the etcd
repo and hundreds of issues that remain open.
Unfortunately it is just far outside the ability of the maintainer team
to take care of all of these issues manually.
So, follow the lead of Kubernetes and introduce a bot that closes PRs
and issues if they are stale.
See more information here: https://github.com/probot/stale#probot-stale
Brandon Philips