intrigeri: > sajolida: >> I think the Foundation Team should follow up on this idea there. > > So far, Electrum hasn't been part of our mission but even if we don't > do the work ourselves, I agree we should at least provide guidance > wrt. what solution would be acceptable or not for Tails. > > I won't have time for this in March but I've added this topic > to the agenda for the upcoming Foundation Team sprint (early April).
It sounds good to take a decision early April. If it helps I could join the discussion as well. If this discussion leads to a removal of Electrum from Tails, we should also discuss whether we want to document how to use the AppImage on our website (which is pretty easy). >> In terms of priorities for the project. I'm personally really not >> thrilled at the idea of spending a lot of time dealing with this >> situation. > > Yep. That's in line with our decision a couple years ago to remove > Electrum unless someone stepped up to maintain its integration in > Tails. And then s7r did step up! (thanks :) > >> But I also guess that Electrum users are a good share of our >> user base and removing Electrum might make us loose users. Bitcoin users >> are also traditionally good donors and removing Electrum might make use >> loose donations. > > Good point. Data coming from Help Desk suggests that we have quite > a few users of Electrum indeed, or at least, the ones we have are > particularly vocal :) During our donation campaign 27% of our donations were in bitcoins. These were maybe not all people who would stop using Tails if we remove Electrum, but at least people having bitcoins and interested in Tails. -- sajolida _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
