Post #1851112

I have long had a weird role in @GnuPG . I don't influence the specifications (RFC9580 or LibrePGP), I don't touch the codebase, I have absolutely no official role. Some people listen to me anyway because of my twenty years of active involvement in the GnuPG community. Today, a member of the GnuPG community wrote one of the bravest criticisms I've ever seen of GnuPG's leadership. It was professional but it was so unflinching I thought it certainly had to be a private communique mistakenly sent to the mailing list. It was not. First, my hat is off to @andrewg for writing that criticism. It is important and it should be read by GnuPG supporters. You can read it ourself in the archives: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2026-April/068280.html I will have more to say later. I have to be very careful what I say, because I do not want to give the impression I'm seeking to influence a specification or an implementation. For now, I will say I am on Andrew's side in this and I commend him for what he's done.