[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Taking over Monkeysphere

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2023-08-12 09:05:10, John Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to take over Monkeysphere upstream and downstream. Could you grant me access to the Salsa repo?
>
> I have a vision for it that is a little different from what it is now, so I think adding in a NEWS file saying "speak up now if you want this particular functionality" is the way to go in the near-term, and in the long term the package contents will change radically. This is better than simple removal of the package.
>
> Anyway, my Salsa username is jscott. Thanks for your consideration.

Hi John,

I am not sure. I do think the best approach is to remove Monkeysphere
from Debian, actually. The code is basically dead and mostly non-working
for most purposes. The web-of-trust is dead as well, which is partly
what Monkeysphere assumed would exist to make sense of things.

Furthermore, the code was a good first prototype, but I think it should
be discarded, not worked on directly.

I think a best use of your efforts would be inside the Sequoia project,
personnally. We should have retired Monkeysphere properly, but alas that
did not happen...

a.

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