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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>, robbat2@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 10/12] glep-0063: Make 2-yearly expiration term mandatory
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 06:51:23
Message-Id: 1530859872.869.6.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 10/12] glep-0063: Make 2-yearly expiration term mandatory by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 W dniu pią, 06.07.2018 o godzinie 06∶28 +0000, użytkownik Robin H.
2 Johnson napisał:
3 > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 08:18:32AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > > option a)
5 > > > 2 years + N:
6 > > > 2 weeks <= N <= 3 months.
7 > > >
8 > > > option b)
9 > > > Change the wording to be 'at most 2 years' instead of 'exactly 2 years'.
10 > >
11 > > That *is* the wording.
12 >
13 > I apologize. I took ulm's post as canonical and didn't confirm in the
14 > original GLEP text.
15 >
16 > Further change to follow in response to the original text.
17 >
18 > > > Separately:
19 > > > Is two weeks enough time for a new key distribution to users?
20 > >
21 > > I originally wanted to specify one month but k_f insisted on something
22 > > shorter. 2 weeks were the compromise we agreed on. That said, I'd say
23 > > weekly 'gpg --refresh' is what we should recommend as the bare minimum.
24 > >
25 > > That said, the point of two weeks is mostly to give us time to remind
26 > > developers that their key is expiring and to give them time to actually
27 > > read their mail and do it before it actually expires.
28 >
29 > Please let's start reminding them BEFORE that. I have seen a lot of
30 > .away files over the last decade, and taking a 2-week offline vacation
31 > does happen.
32
33 The problem is, Gentoo developers are really hostile people. If you
34 remind them *before* the term, they are not very nice because how does
35 someone dare remind very important developer who was planning to do it
36 week before expiration, and now he needed to waste his precious time
37 reading your mail.
38
39 --
40 Best regards,
41 Michał Górny

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