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#2: Checksum and sig support

Contents
  1. Motivation
  2. Proposal

It is very common to have checksum (md5, sha256) and sig (gpg signatures) for downloads. PSF has no infrastructure to attach sigs and checksums to a fiile

Proposed by
Christian Heimes
Proposal type
Architecture
State
being-discussed

Motivation

File downloads should be checksummed to have a way to validate a download. It is a common sign of beeing professional.

Proposal

* Add file upload field for signatures

* Add string field for sha256 and md5 check sum

* Add dummy files for sha and md5 checksums that list all files in a release with "checksum filename"