[Mailman-Developers] GnuPG support

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stanisław Findeisen writes:
 > On 2011-05-22 16:03, Mark Sapiro wrote:
 > > Stanislaw Findeisen wrote:
 > >> I have a feature idea: GnuPG encryption and signing.
 > > 
 > > 
 > > See <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558189> and
 > > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers@python.org/msg10530.html>.
 > 
 > So?... What's the problem with that patch? Why isn't it a part of Mailman?

Did you read the post?  The author of the patch didn't consider it
ready for production use and posted it "as is" for interested and
capable parties, while Mailman 2.1 is the stable branch, so it won't
be applied "as is".

Nobody else (including the core developers) stepped up to improve and
maintain it, so

(1) you can use it "as is" (and keep reapplying it as you update
    Mailman), or
(2) you can do the work to make it production-ready, in which case it
    might be applied (but Mailman 2 is pretty near end-of-life so it
    might not), or
(3) you can wait for somebody else to do it, in which case it may or
    may not be part of the distribution for the initial release of
    Mailman 3, but probably will be incorporated fairly quickly as
    such things go (it's reasonably frequently requested), or
(4) you can pay somebody to do the work, in which case it seems pretty
    likely that it will be ready for Mailman 3.

Note the emphasis on the word "you".  What happens to open source
software is as much *your* choice as anyone else's.  Put on your Nikes
and Just Do It!<wink />