On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:20:27PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 19:33 +0000, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > This led to a philosophical debate about whether bans should be made > > > public. > > > Alexander expressed concern that having them published could be harmful > > > to a > > > person's reputation, since employers will google your name and see that > > > you've been banned from a large project such as Debian. > > > > I join Alexander on the above. > > > > > What do the rest of you think? > > > > I suggest we keep things civil, with respect for the persons involved. It's > > really not up to Debian to harm someone's reputation, and that could reflect > > bad on Debian's reputation. > [...] > > This is the same argument used to cover up all kinds of abuses. Maybe > in the case of mailing list bans the infraction is minor enough that we > should not make a public record of it, but I am very sceptical of the > argument in general.
Cover up ? I did suggest approaches with full transparency among DDs. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
