Project Governance

FreePG is a collaboration between GnuPG distributors and OpenPGP developers, for the benefit of the broader community of GnuPG users. It is organised by its members in a spirit of good faith and mutual assistance. In the event of a dispute between the members that cannot be resolved by any other means, the “rough consensus” method will be used to make a decision. If the result is still unclear, any two members may call a vote by the membership on the question “Has rough consensus been achieved regarding (X)?”; members will have two weeks to vote, by public email. RFC7282 may be used as a reference, but shall not be definitive.

Formal discussion and decision-making will take place on a public mailing list, and development will be organised via public git repository. Subscription to the mailing list will be open to non-members of the FreePG project. Administration responsibility for each of these tools, and any other tools that may be required, will be delegated to no less than two individual members by agreement of the membership.

Project Goals

  1. Minimise divergence from the IETF OpenPGP specification
  2. Support reading of LibrePGP artifacts for compatibility
  3. Fix security issues that remain unresolved upstream
  4. Support the maintenance needs of downstream distributions

Project Members

The initial project membership consists of:

Any OpenPGP developer or GnuPG distributor may be invited by agreement of the existing members. A member may resign at any time. All other membership issues are subject to “rough consensus”.