Re: Web of Trust work [Was: kernel.org tooling update]

Konstantin Ryabitsev
2026-01-23T16:38:40Z

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 11:24:33AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > There will be a presentation about this in February at a conference
> > and hopefully it will be made public then as the work is still
> > ongoing.
>
> Could you please stop doing this? The Open Source norm is to release
> early and often and long before you have stable code so you get
> feedback incorporated *before* you're committed to something.

I will provide this feedback to them when we meet in a week. It's not the LF
itself who are writing this code, but a bunch of security devs funded by
OpenSSF and they *are* closely working with me and Greg during the initial
iteration to make sure that what they come up with is actually going to be
suitable and well-received by the kernel community (like, don't write it in
nodejs or something).

So, I'd say we're doing it right -- write the initial tool based on the
requirements provided by some key users, then release the 0.1 for broader use
and do iterative development based on feedback.

-K