Hi! * Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> [2010-03-02 11:27:25 CET]: > On Tue, 02 Mar 2010, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > This is IMNSHO a serious violation and breach of privacy. It doesn't > > IMO it's not. The PTS is like launchpad but for Debian and there you can > see who is subscribed to each package and to each bug: > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/262451 > > See "bug subscriptions" and "subscribers" box on the right.
Just because others do expose that informations by default doesn't mean it is a good thing nor that Debian has to go that path nor that it is alright to change that _afterwards_, after it has been established for a long time already the way it is, without any mentioning or discussion _beforehand_. > Lucas had my blessing as PTS maintainer to expose hashed versions of the > emails. That doesn't make it any better, rather the contrary: That just means that you also don't care for the privacy of the data that you received from your users. > It has been discussed with the PTS maintainers and I decided it was OK for > him to do that. My main concern was not exposing email to protect from > spam. They are still indirectly exposed because like Lucas confirmed himself, that's the easy part. > We're working in an open manner, I fail to see what you fear by letting > people know on what you are subscribed or not. Alright, let's also expose list subscriptions along the same reasoning. Again, this is not your job to judge which lists I would be interested in. > Quite on the contrary I find it valuable information for MIA-tracking, > for finding possible co-maintainers, etc. MIA-tracking is done in the same privacy area that the original PTS data was born in, and that on intention. I fail to see at all how that new interface with opening that information to the public makes that any easier. Thanks, Rhonda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100302104020.gb27...@anguilla.debian.or.at
