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its open source, we can fork .. (i know for such a project it will require a very special group of "we", but in theory .. it can happen)

If you need a fork, I've already done most of the hard work for all of you.

Or

I've been releasing the versions all the way since 1.5.3 and all community extensions.

> a self-contained, signed extension ecosystem

What does this mean? Can I easily sign my own private extensions with my own key?

We are currently allowing unsigned extensions, loading them, then locking the duckdb config to prevent loading unsigned/untrusted extensions

In 2.0 you can sign extensions with your own key and have your own extension repo. Thats the plan at least.

In 1.5 - Haybarn has its own signing key, but its much faster to get extensions released and deployed.