Re: [Sks-devel] hg workflow pointers

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 08/10/2017 03:24 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I'm
> not asking this question to push you or other hg-preferring developers
> out of sks, Jason, and would welcome suggestions for how to have a
> bigger tent.  sks suffers from a lack of active development, and we need
> more eyes on it if the OpenPGP community is going to continue to rely on
> keyservers.

Well, the level of activity reflects to some extent the stability of the
affected standards.. new features such as elliptic curves of various
kinds have been in released stable versions of SKS before other
implementations (naturally, since the complexity of searching and
storing is lower than using it).

The issues lately causing need for fixes is silly breakages in minor
version bumps in ocaml (I don't care that the developers say 4.04 to
4.05 is a major bump, its not, they need to get their versioning right
and stop doing silly API breaking stuff)

As for attracting new people; Its a specialized interest, very few have
a handle on OpenPGP overall, and uses vary greatly, e.g some focus more
on privacy than security, at which point keyserver might not be the
right thing for them to begin with due to social graph leak.

... noting of which is a result of the choie of VCS impacting this to a
great extent. If anything we'd need to rewrite the full codebase in C
for such an argument to be made.

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