[Kde-pim] Kleopatra / GpgME++ maintainership

[Volker Krause]

Thanks a lot Andre for stepping up, Kleo will be in good hands :)

On Tuesday 13 October 2015 13:06:33 Andre Heinecke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After maintaining Kleopatra as part of Gpg4win since 2013 I'd like to
> officially take over the maintainership of Kleopatra and Gpgme++.
> 
> Thanks to the funding we (at Intevation) will have through the Gpg4all
> project (Volker already forwarded our announcement about that) I'll have
> time to work on Gpg4win and Kleopatra in the next years.
> 
> I've asked Marc Mutz as the current maintainer and he's OK with me taking
> over.
> 
> 
> Apart from general bugfixing / maintenance some of our plans are:
> 
> - Improving the User experience for new users. To assist them
>   how to work with GnuPG through Kleopatra.
> 
> - General usability improvements especially regarding Key validity and
>   OpenPGP.
> 
> - Improved UI Server dialogs for usage from GpgEX and GpgOL
> 
> - Improved OpenPGP Smartcard support.
> 
> - Some (more) Unit Tests.
> 
> - Several smaller issues like automatic file content detection or revocation
> certificate support.
> 
> I'd also like to move libkleo and Kleopatra out of the main kdepim
> repository as I think it makes sense and it would help with dependency
> management without something like the old KDEPIM_ONLY_KLEO hack. :-)
> 
> libkleo should imo also become a framework library with a stable API, as
> already suggested in the kdepim tasks.
> 
> This is of course something to be discussed.
> 
> For GpgMe++:
> 
> - Finally including gpgme++ as the official C++ bindings in GpgME itself.
>   (There is agreement with the gpgme maintainer that this should be done \o/
> )
> 
> Regards,
> Andre
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