gnupg-for-java

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

For the record, my work on GnuPG was largely funded by the US Government, via
the State Department/Radio Free Asia/Open Technology Fund.  So are other
projects like Tor Project, Mailvelope, crypto.cat, NoScript, and many more.  I
don't think that being associated with the US Government automatically
disqualifies your contributions of free software.

.hc

Robert J. Hansen:
> A while ago, the fellows at the Guardian Project released Java bindings
> for GnuPG.  A project's come along where I could make use of them, and
> thought I'd give them a spin.  I was quite surprised to discover that,
> as of this writing, they don't even build.
> 
> The offender seems to be jUnit.  The gnupg-for-java code uses a lot of
> imports like "junit.framework", and the current jUnit drops everything
> in the org.junit namespace.  On top of that, old test methods like
> TestSuite from jUnit 3.8 have been deprecated in favor of Suite, from
> more modern jUnits.
> 
> This doesn't appear to be hard work.  The test suite is about 250 lines
> of code, most of it fairly clear.  If you know Java and would like to
> contribute to GnuPG but don't quite know where, this would seem to be an
> excellent "bite-sized" project to take on.
> 
> 
> 
> (If anyone's wondering why I'm not doing it: following my long-standing
> rule, I don't contribute code patches for either GnuPG or Enigmail.
> Although I'm not an employee of the U.S. government, I have a lot of
> friends and family who are.  If I contributed code, some people would
> make a ruckus about how GnuPG was now 'tainted'.  To prevent this, and
> to maintain the community's trust in GnuPG, I don't touch the code.)
> 
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