On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 11:29 +0100, Stuart Ellis wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:27 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > Click-throughs are passive, people can do them without thought. The > > > sign-the-CLA-with-GPG is active. > > > > But I agree that GPG signing emails is just frills compared with the > > CLA. No reason people should go through that pain if they don't care. > > I've been using PGP/GPG so long that I don't, but it's obviously a > > significant barrier to some people, and since it's not necessary outside > > the CLA, we should remove or demote it like you said. My ~$0.02. > > FWIW, when I wrote that line I had a couple of things in mind: > > 1) Since in practice you need a GPG key and a Linux box to contribute, > and the default GNOME mail client (Evolution) enables GPG with one > setting, signed e-mail is almost free (I thought). Kmail has GPG support > as well, I believe. Yes, those are both low-drag apps as far as GPG goes. > 2) Doing the Right Thing: without some kind of signature, an e-mail just > isn't trustworthy, even though most people do assume the "From:" field > can be trusted. Which is slightly worrying, and something that I have to > explain semi-regularly as people receive infected or phish mails. With a > project like this, where contributors often only interact through IRC > and e-mail, signed mail is particularly valuable IMO. Don't get me wrong, I prefer GPG, I just don't want it to be a sticking point for new contributors. > Of course I hadn't looked at Thunderbird... It appears that the versions > of Enigmail provided by the developer are often incompatible with > Thunderbird builds provided by Fedora, and there isn't a package in the > Fedora repositories for Enigmail. I looked into this too and discovered the same thing. I wonder why no one has packaged it, seeing as how it's so useful? Anyone interested in doing so? -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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