Re: [Sks-devel] "SKS is effectively running as end-of-life software at this point"?

[Tobias Frei]

Hi, 

Isn't Mozilla Thunderbird in a similar state? I'm still happily using it *because* it has reached a point where further updates are rarely needed.

Best regards

Tobias Frei

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 14:22 Steffen Kaiser <address@hidden> wrote:

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I picked up this sentence here on the list in a thread about poison
key(s):

"> Any chance that sks will be fixed some day?

"Short answer, no. SKS is effectively running as end-of-life software at
this point. It gets emergency bugfixes but little else. The improvements
you are talking about would require an enormous refactoring of the
codebase, likely requiring migration to a different database engine.
Given that there are fundamental design flaws (poison keys) that aren't
getting fixed, performance issues just aren't on the radar. Sorry."

Is it meant litterally? The current SKS project is end of life and,
effectively, we have to look into another direction? Other software, new
fork with rewrite?

Kind regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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