Comment 3 for bug 252368

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote : Re: Automatically associate DD and DM accounts with GPG keys in keyring packages

This is a great idea. In order to make this useful, though, we need to do changes that are a bit more invasive. Basically, we need to "half-validate" these accounts: they won't have passwords, but in other ways they would be mostly like activated accounts and we can:

  - Associate them to bug reports and other bits of data in Launchpad
  - Email them when their subscriptions would cause them to be mailed
  - Allow them to post emails and gpg-signed modifications
  - Provide homepages for them in Launchpad so they can figure out what they are subscribed to, etc.

The main issue here is subscribing and emailing them. The alternative would be to simply accept gpg-signed email from them, but not actually email them back (or allow them to be subscribed). But I find that such an unuseful compromise I'm not inclined to set it up unless there's a good reason to.