This thread really has me pulling my hair--what's left of it. Some core aspects from where I am standing:
1. GPG is maintained by volunteers. If you have any complaint about how this maintenance is progressing, get off your behind and be a volunteer yourself, or failing that, provide an incentive--money would be nice--to existing volunteers. See also: Gift horses, not looking in the mouth of. 2. GPG 1.4 will not suddenly vanish if it is no longer maintained. People can still use it like before. Maybe they shouldn't, but they can. 3. GPG 1.4 has been outdated for what amounts to ages in terms of software life cycles. Whoever has not migrated so far will also not migrate if you give him another 6 or 12 months. While everybody is free to stick with 1.4, nobody is required to waste resources on maintenance efforts, unless it gives him some strange pleasure to do so. I think that only a fait accompli in the form of dropping version 1.4 support will push the procrastinators in management to release necessary funds. What I percieve a lot in this thread are variations of "I wanna stay in bed for five more minutes mommy". I wonder if Werner and Robert should charge 5 EUR for every incident of whining to secure some funds? Get off your collective bums and out of bed, children! ;-) -Ralph _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
