For those who might not be familiar with the upcoming changes, the challenge here is significant: with SSL certificate lifespans dropping to as low as 47 days by 2029, customers using commercial CAs like Sectigo or DigiCert would need to handle 8+ renewals per year instead of the current annual renewal. That makes manual certificate management practically impossible or at least not very easy.
I understand the technical solution - integrating ACME client support for commercial CA endpoints would allow automation of these paid certificates, similar to how Let's Encrypt works now. The question is whether this warrants development priority.
How many of you are currently using commercial SSL certificates instead of Let's Encrypt?
Are your customers specifically requesting this, or is this more of a "future-proofing" consideration?
For those using commercial CAs, what's driving that choice - compliance requirements, client preferences, or other factors?
I assume the development team already has their hands full with existing priorities, so we need to be realistic and if this is a feature requests going against real user needs.
If this is something that would affect a significant portion of the user base, it's worth prioritizing. If it's a niche requirement, I think it's better served documenting workarounds for the few users who need it.
Personally I don't have any users requesting this and I feel it's a large ask as core functions still need improvements before adding this feature.
