384348 - should have documentation on how to sign an extension

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Add-ons, defect, P3)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

We ought to have documentation for how to sign a Firefox extension.  There are apparently a few people who know how to do this, but it's not obvious.  (There are people at MoCo who have produced signed extensions, although I'm not sure exactly who.)

Comment 1

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

<http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Signing_a_XPI> exists, but it's not especially pretty.  It probably wouldn't take long for someone to clean that up and make a respectable article/tutorial out of it.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

It would also need to be linked from appropriate sections of the rest of the extension documentation, particularly http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Toolkit_API and http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Bundles .

Comment 3

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Would you be able to use McCoy to do this, or is that something else entirely?

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

It looks like something else entirely based on http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/McCoy , although I'm not sure.

Comment 5

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

Can we say this is now covered by https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Distribution ?

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

For all practical purposes, probably, since Mozilla is now signing addons.

It still might not be crazy to have documentation on how to do it, although maybe comment 1 is sufficient.

Comment 7

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

There is a new doc talking about this, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Distribution
Please reopen if more work is needed here.