On Fri, 2019-05-24 at 08:54 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:57:08AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > I'm perfectly fine with Link:, however Reported-By: usually has the > > > person's > > > name and email address (i.e. PII data per GDPR definition). If that > > > pehrson > > > submitted the bug report via bugzilla.kernel.org or a similar resource, > > > their expectation is that they can delete their account should they choose > > > to to do so. However, if the patch containing Reported-By is committed to > > > git, their PII becomes permanently and immutably recorded for any > > > reasonable > > > meaning of the word "forever." > > > > Many (most?) bugzilla.kernel.org components result in e-mail getting > > sent to vger.kernel.org mailing lists. So even if they delete the > > bugzilla account, there e-mail will be immortalized in lore.kernel.org > > and their associated git repositories. > > I wouldn't say that most -- to my knowledge, it's only about 5-6 > components of the 50+. It's hard to tell how much that is by volume, > though, because certainly not all components see much activity. > > We *can* excise things on lore.kernel.org. It's a massive pain, since > message archive is a git repository itself, so will need to be rebased, > reindexed and remirrored -- but it *is* possible.
It's likely not a worthwhile pain to self-inflict because lore.kernel.org is not the only public vger mailing list archive. https://lkml.org/ https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/ http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/ https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel etc...
