[OT] why isn't bikeshed good enough as a sounder replacement?

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Thu, June 23, 2011 21:32, Alan Pope wrote:

> Take some time to read up on GPG. It's not that hard to grasp. I too
> was like you, I didn't "get it" and would just generate keys when I
> needed them. However when I signed the CoC I decided to set aside a
> few minutes of my life to actually learn this stuff. I generated a
> key, signed the Code of Conduct and the key is still there. I still
> use it because I'm involved in the project. I sign my Tomboy uploads
> with it, and it's been used by other people to encrypt sensitive data
> like passwords that they need to send me. Useful stuff if you're
> involved in the project. If you're not, then no, it's not as much use.
>
> Still, it was only a few minutes of my life to do.

Yes Al, of course you are 100% right.
I will certainly do that after all those other things that also need just
a few proverbial minutes. Do you have a cloning machine, a time travel
device, an immortality potion, or should I just do that in my next
incarnation?

It's rather low on my priority list. I *have* contributed in the past, as
a member of the ubuntu-be LoCo group. JanC can confirm this. But it was
just too much of a timesink. Sorry.