[chromakode]

I've been tinkering on one approach to trustworthy OSS ecosystem at https://github.com/chromakode/signet.

The OSS world has grown precipitously in the era of GitHub/npm/etc, and the trust model hasn't caught up. It's not tenable to maintain a GPG keychain for a nested tree of 100 dependencies. Neither is it advisable to keep deferring this problem. We need to come up with a solution for tracking reputation and trustworthy dependencies at this new scale. It's not simply a problem that package repositories like npm can solve for us -- the scope of this problem is human, and an ideal solution will work for both users and developers, and apply to source distributions and multiple package repositories. One of the few silver linings of the events of the last week is that more people are aware of and pondering these issues. I hope we'll see some more discussion and experimentation in this space!

[Gracana]

I like the general idea of this and I think it would be interesting to see how various software hubs could integrate it.

An easy thing you could do right now is to put an attestation directory right into your git repo. Then write up your comments (maybe in a file format similar to what you're doing with signet) and do a signed commit into that directory.