Hi,

Isn't Mozilla Thunderbird in a similar state? I'm still happily using it
*because* it has reached a point where further updates are rarely needed.

Best regards
Tobias Frei

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 14:22 Steffen Kaiser <ska...@infcs.de> wrote:

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> I picked up this sentence here on the list in a thread about poison
> key(s):
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> "> Any chance that sks will be fixed some day?
>
> "Short answer, no. SKS is effectively running as end-of-life software at
> this point. It gets emergency bugfixes but little else. The improvements
> you are talking about would require an enormous refactoring of the
> codebase, likely requiring migration to a different database engine.
> Given that there are fundamental design flaws (poison keys) that aren't
> getting fixed, performance issues just aren't on the radar. Sorry."
>
> Is it meant litterally? The current SKS project is end of life and,
> effectively, we have to look into another direction? Other software, new
> fork with rewrite?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> - --
> Steffen Kaiser
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