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

[Colin Law]

On 24 June 2011 16:23, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> 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.
>

Does not helping others here on this list count as contributing to the
Ubuntu community?

Colin