Project barriers (was Re: Self-Introduction: Chris Savage)

[Stuart Ellis]

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 13:45 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 10:36 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > 
> > > > Of course I hadn't looked at Thunderbird... It appears that the versions
> > > > of Enigmail provided by the developer are often incompatible with
> > > > Thunderbird builds provided by Fedora, and there isn't a package in the
> > > > Fedora repositories for Enigmail.
> > > 
> > > I looked into this too and discovered the same thing.  I wonder why no
> > > one has packaged it, seeing as how it's so useful?  Anyone interested in
> > > doing so?
> > 
> > Does it require repackaging in Fedora? Its is a trivially easy extension
> > to install. What we need is not packages but better documentation on
> > using GPG. write up a outline and post to the list and see if any of the
> > contributors listed
> > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Contributors) would be
> > interested in writing the document. We really need to focus on getting
> > simple documents done better.
> 
> Does it *require* repackaging?  I'm not sure.  Look at the instructions
> at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/WithThunderbird
> and you tell me.  These have been up for some time.  I'd say being able
> to use yum or pirut would be a big help here for beginners.
> 
> Somebody out there on this list has to be using Thunderbird.  Got a few
> minutes to contribute?  Then try these instructions, AS WRITTEN, and let
> us know if they're not working.  Better yet, edit the wiki page shown
> here.  We'll see the results and handle any editing, so don't worry
> about getting your spelling or grammar perfect.  Step right up folks!

I've been looking into this, and have replaced the content on that page
with instructions for FC5. They work for me, but I'm not a regular
Thunderbird user, so anybody who is should feel free to edit.

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Stuart Ellis

stuart at elsn.org

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