On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Joey Hess wrote: > Bart Martens wrote: > > 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.
> > Approaches I could support : > > - post the bans with reasons on debian-private > > - or maintain a list of bans with reasons in a text file on a Debian machine > > where DDs can read this info. > Simply obfuscating the name on the list of banned users (or not posting > any names at all, only links to the posts that led to the ban) would > eliminate most reputational damage. Ie, random searches for that > person would not turn up a high pagerank debian.org page listing their > youthful indiscretions. > Using eg "J. Hess" would probably be fine in most cases. +1 for a elegance and gesture, but -1 for efficiency: F.Last is not sufficiently obfuscated when Last name is not very common. but probably it would still be better indeed than publishing names publicly complete unobfuscated. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- 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/20131027013949.gs18...@onerussian.com
