[gentoo-keys] Gentoo Keys: Expansion and improvements -- weekly report #1

[gentoo-keys] Gentoo Keys: Expansion and improvements -- weekly report #1

[Pavlos Ratis]

Hello,

This year I am working on improving and expanding the features of Gentoo Keys.

Gentoo Keys is a Python based project that aims to manage the GPG
keys used for validation on users and Gentoo's infrastructure
servers. These keys will be any/all of the release keys, developer keys
and any other third party keys or keyrings available or needed.

Source code: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-keys

Week #1
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Status: on schedule

Tasks done:

* Refined seed handling & improved seed loading.
* Switched the current seed file format to JSON.
* Fixed some known bugs in GKEY namedtuple.
* Removed unused code in gkeyldap and gkeys based on the new changes.
* General improvements.

Goals for the next week:

*  Implement GPG key creation template system based on GLEP 63.[1]
*  Add ssl-fetch[2] for downloading seeds and updates.
*  Create a pretty print function for listing seeds.

[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:63
[2] https://github.com/dol-sen/ssl-fetch

Best regards,
Pavlos Ratis