[PATCH] doc: clarify that --encrypt refers to public key encryption

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Nov 30 16:25:39 CET 2017


On Wed 2017-11-22 09:52:05 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:15, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
>
>> OK, pushed a modified/clarified form to master.  Should this also be
>> backported to the stable branches?
>
> Yes. 

pushed to 2.2, thanks for the followup.

> On Monday's telco we agreed on that clear bug fixes (and I would also
> say doc fixes) should be done to the 2.2 branch and then merged by the
> hacker on duty into master within the next few days.
>
> All changes for which it is not clear whether they need to go into 2.2
> are to be done in master and will be cherry-picked into 2.2 on a case to
> case base.

This sounds like sensible policy.  Thanks for spelling it out here.

is there an explicit role or rotation for "hacker on duty" that i should
know about?  Pointers to existing documentation are welcome.

All the best,

     --dkg
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