ManoniHow releases are built
Manoni is not code-signed yet. Here is exactly what that means, and what you can check instead of taking my word for it.
Manoni is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen warns about it. That is a "we don't know who wrote this" warning, not a virus warning.
A code-signing certificate costs a few hundred dollars a year. SignPath Foundation gives them to open-source projects for free — I applied, and they turned me down for now because the project is too new to show the public track record they ask for. Windows itself asks for no such thing; SignPath does, because it gives the certificate away. So the warning goes away once Manoni is established enough to qualify, and not before.
In the meantime, you do not have to trust me — see below.
What you can verify
The installer is built on GitHub's servers from the public source, so it is not something I could have quietly altered on my own machine. You can open the build that produced your exact file, read the workflow that made it, and read every line of source that went into it.
How releases are built
Every release from 1.2.0 onward is compiled from the public source code in
the GitHub repository by an
automated GitHub Actions
build — not on a private machine. The workflow file
(.github/workflows/build.yml) is part of the repository, so anyone can
see exactly how the executable and the installer are produced.
Two older releases, 0.9 and 1.1.0, are still on the releases page and predate that workflow — they were built by hand on my own machine. They are left up for history; download the current release instead.
Team & roles
Manoni is developed and maintained by a single person:
- Lasha Kandelaki (@kandelucky) — committer, reviewer, and release approver.
Two-factor authentication is enforced on the accounts used for the source repository and for publishing releases.
Privacy
Manoni runs entirely on your computer. It does not collect, transmit or share any data — no telemetry, no analytics, no background network calls. The program will never transfer data to outside services without your explicit action and consent.
License
Manoni is free software under the GNU General Public License v3.0.