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\input texinfo @c -*- texinfo -*-
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@c %**start of header
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@setfilename maintenance-mode.info
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@settitle Maintenance Mode
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@documentencoding UTF-8
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@documentlanguage en
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@c %**end of header
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@finalout
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@titlepage
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@title Maintenance Mode
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@author Ben McGinnes
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@end titlepage
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@contents
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@ifnottex
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@node Top
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@top Maintenance Mode
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@end ifnottex
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@menu
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* Maintenance Mode from 2019::
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@detailmenu
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--- The Detailed Node Listing ---
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Maintenance Mode from 2019
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* Maintainer from 2019 onward::
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* Using the Python Bindings from 2019 and beyond::
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@end detailmenu
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@end menu
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@node Maintenance Mode from 2019
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@chapter Maintenance Mode from 2019
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@multitable {aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa} {aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa}
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@item Version:
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@tab 0.0.1-draft
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@item GPGME Version:
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@tab 1.13.0
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@item Author:
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@tab @uref{https://gnupg.org/people/index.html#sec-1-5, Ben McGinnes} <@email{ben@@gnupg.org, ben@@gnupg.org}>
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@item Author GPG Key:
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@tab @uref{https://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?search=0xDB4724E6FA4286C92B4E55C4321E4E2373590E5D&exact=on&op=get, DB4724E6FA4286C92B4E55C4321E4E2373590E5D}
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@item Language:
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@tab Australian English, British English
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@item xml:lang:
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@tab en-AU, en-GB, en
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@end multitable
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From the beginning of 2019 the Python bindings to GPGME will enter
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maintenance mode, meaning that new features will not be added and only
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bug fixes and security fixes will be made. This also means that
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documentation beyond that existing at the end of 2018 will not be
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developed further except to correct errors.
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Though use of these bindings appears to have been quite well received,
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there has been no indication of what demand there is, if any for
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either financial backing of the current Python bindings development or
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support contracts with g10code GmbH citing the necessity of including
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the bindings.
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@menu
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* Maintainer from 2019 onward::
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* Using the Python Bindings from 2019 and beyond::
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@end menu
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@node Maintainer from 2019 onward
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@section Maintainer from 2019 onward
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How does this affect the position of GnuPG Python Bindings Maintainer?
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Well, I will remain as maintainer of the bindings; but without funding
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for that position, the amount of time I will be able to dedicate
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solely to this task will be limited and reduced to volunteered time.
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As with all volunteered time and effort in free software projects,
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this will be subject to numerous external imperatives.
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@node Using the Python Bindings from 2019 and beyond
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@section Using the Python Bindings from 2019 and beyond
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For most, if not all, Python developers using these bindings; they
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will continue to “just work” the same as they always have. Expansions
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of GPGME itself are usually handled by SWIG with the existing code and
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thus bindings are generated properly when the bindings are installed
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alongside GPGME and when the latter is built from source.
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In the rare circumstances where that is not enough to address some new
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addition to GPGME, then that is a bug and thus subject to the
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maintenance mode provisions (i.e. it will be fixed following a bug
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report being raised and your humble author will need to remember where
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the timesheet template was filed, depending on how many years off such
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an event is).
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All the GPGME functionality will continue to be accessible via the
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lower level, dynamically generated methods which match the GPGME C
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documentation. While the more intuitively Pythonic higher level layer
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already covers the vast majority of functionality people require with
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key generation, signatures, certifications (key signing), encryption,
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decryption, verification, validation, trust levels and so on.
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Any wanted features lacking in the Python bindings are usually lacking
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because they are missing from GPGME itself (e.g. revoking keys via the
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API) and in such cases they are usually deliberately excluded. More
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Any features existing in the dynamically generated layer for which
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people want a specific, higher level function included to make it more
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Pythonic (e.g. to avoid needing to learn or memorise cryptographic
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mode values or GnuPG status code numbers), would be a feature request
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and @emph{not} a bug.
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It is still worthwhile requesting it, but the addition of such a
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feature would not be guaranteed and provided on a purely volunteer
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basis. Expediting such a request would require funding that request.
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Those with a commercial interest in expediting such a feature request
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already know how to @uref{https://gnupg.org/cgi-bin/procdonate.cgi?mode=preset, expedite it} (use the message field to state what
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feature is being requested).
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@bye
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