Post #2858287
2026-04-29 07:31 UTC
Hi @andrewg@mastodon.ie, thanks for responding. I've also send a response to your email to the gnupg-users mailinglist. (I think a mailinglist is better to have a more in-depth exchange.)
To answer your question: I am indeed frustrated and exhausted. However my previous statement holds: if we want to get things together again (here and there), we need to be extra respectful of other people's positions and feelings. And I am trying to do this, in the little time I have to help the ecosystem. The longer gap may actually have helped to cool down some of the most heated arguments and thus may also open new possibilities.
(BTW: Thanks for your work on the keyservers, hockeypuck and the OpenPGP ecosystem.)
@GnuPG@mstdn.social @rob@social.afront.org
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@andrewg@mastodon.ie 2026-04-29 09:39
@ber@social.tchncs.de @GnuPG@mstdn.social @rob@social.afront.org Thanks! I'll point the lurkers to the mailing list for my full response, which I agree is better in long form: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2026-April/068288.html The tl;dr though is simple: the burning issue is a power struggle between a collective governance model (#OpenPGP) and a BDFL governance model (#LibrePGP). There isn't room for both. And while we can all try to be more civil, calling out bad behaviour will always have the appearance of incivility.