GnuPG Fundraising Rally

I'll happily fund however much it will take to get them to religiously follow SemVer. Because there are soooo many breaking changes in patch releases that it's nearly impossible to keep our automation pipeline around gpg2 working consistently.

I just set up a recurring donation for what I think is fair given my (very small) use of GPG.<p>I can&#x27;t help but cynically wonder how much funding GPG would get just from the various journalists in this donation video making a decent salary who claim that GPG is indispensable for their work.<p>Another case of free software tragedy of the commons.

I understand the need to fund things, but could someone illuminate for a end consumer of the software what requires 15k euros a month development for GnuPG? Yes new cyphers&#x2F;PRNGs&#x2F;hashes come online, but it doesn&#x27;t seem to be moving as quickly as other internet infrastructure (GnuTLS, X.org, SSL, NTPD) products.<p>It seems like things that were sponsored by major organizations because they saw the good in having their name associated with a product or service in favor of getting the &quot;internet at large&quot; to pay for things that have become ingrained as &quot;But it&#x27;s free so why should we pay for it?&quot;

There are also translations to German, French and Japanese:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnupg.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;index.ja.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnupg.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;index.ja.html</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnupg.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;index.fr.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnupg.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;index.fr.html</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnupg.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;index.de.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnupg.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;index.de.html</a>

I hope they spend some of that money on the keyservers, they seem to be down every time I want to grab some gpg keys.

I was wondering, how do they sustain such an effort ? I mean, working on GunPG is not exactly a simple task (I guess), so how do they fund themselves ? I understand the donations campaigns, but when that money dries off ? I read that the main dev had to work on other things not related to GunPG. Does it mean that we do have somebody working on GunPG with a sheer level of pragmatic altruism (i.e. working for close to nothing as long as he can feed its family) ? I&#x27;d like to know what it feels like to work on GnuPG from the inside...

I wonder if they&#x27;ve reached out to news organisations like The Guardian and NYT. Also, perhaps human rights charities could make reasonable contributions once someone explains the importance of the project?

Should I fund improvements to Signal instead?