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From: Pavlos Ratis <dastergon@g.o>
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o, gentoo-keys@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-keys] Gentoo Keys: Expansion and improvements -- weekly report #1
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 15:07:51
Message-Id: CAOgmxWx0eEwOw4w_h4i8LvUyU=8EGHb8FJvH-3CSg3XvKGzQNg@mail.gmail.com
1 Hello,
2
3 This year I am working on improving and expanding the features of Gentoo Keys.
4
5 Gentoo Keys is a Python based project that aims to manage the GPG
6 keys used for validation on users and Gentoo's infrastructure
7 servers. These keys will be any/all of the release keys, developer keys
8 and any other third party keys or keyrings available or needed.
9
10 Source code: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-keys
11
12 Week #1
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14
15 Status: on schedule
16
17 Tasks done:
18
19 * Refined seed handling & improved seed loading.
20 * Switched the current seed file format to JSON.
21 * Fixed some known bugs in GKEY namedtuple.
22 * Removed unused code in gkeyldap and gkeys based on the new changes.
23 * General improvements.
24
25 Goals for the next week:
26
27 * Implement GPG key creation template system based on GLEP 63.[1]
28 * Add ssl-fetch[2] for downloading seeds and updates.
29 * Create a pretty print function for listing seeds.
30
31 [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:63
32 [2] https://github.com/dol-sen/ssl-fetch
33
34 Best regards,
35 Pavlos Ratis