[gentoo-dev] ATTN ALL DEVS - REGARDING PRIVATE INFO

[gentoo-dev] ATTN ALL DEVS - REGARDING PRIVATE INFO

[Benjamin Coles]

First off I'd like to thank the current 31 developers that sent in their 
information. It seems that there are some growing concerns about data 
management and such, things I have not encountered before sending out the 
last email. Right now I am the holder of this data, no one else can see or 
get it and it's not in any database. I will not put any of this into the 
database unless I know myself it's secure. The current ideas for xml 
doesn't seem to be possible and so far we're thinking of having a database 
and a webpage for devls on one server and have an anonymous account 
allowed to only view the public information parse hourly to an xml form.
	Birthday will be moved to developers page, I thought it would be 
neat to make announcments on a dev page about whose birthday it is, the 
purpose of this was not to get personal and exploitable information... it 
is just a better way to document things and in the event of a developer 
wanting to apply for a job, it would be rather nice if you could claim all 
your sweat and hard work on gentoo. A Senior Dev. or even a project lead 
could answer that call. This would explain why the senior management would 
have your private info such as mail/phone/altphone. You're alternate email 
is just in case a server goes down and we cannot reach you via forward.
	I also understand that some people might be intimidated by the 
recent request for email, some may be even angry in this cause. I will say 
again though this is all at your will and consent, if you don't want to 
include it certain fields that is fine. The reason why I requested this in 
the first place is to jump start a bunch of projects that are at a 
standstill.

Thanks,
Benjamin Coles
Gentoo Infrastructure


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Re: [gentoo-dev] ATTN ALL DEVS - REGARDING PRIVATE INFO

[Brett]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 11:09, Benjamin Coles wrote:
> First off I'd like to thank the current 31 developers that sent in their 
> information. It seems that there are some growing concerns about data 
> management and such, things I have not encountered before sending out the 
> last email. Right now I am the holder of this data, no one else can see or 
> get it and it's not in any database. I will not put any of this into the 
> database unless I know myself it's secure. The current ideas for xml 
> doesn't seem to be possible and so far we're thinking of having a database 
> and a webpage for devls on one server and have an anonymous account 
> allowed to only view the public information parse hourly to an xml form.
> 	Birthday will be moved to developers page, I thought it would be 
> neat...
<snip>

I think your intent is good (and thankyou), I was only concerned with
the implementation/access :-)

FYI: The university where I recently worked (Australia, subject to
Privacy Act 2000) had staff information pages which where controlled by
each staff member. Each staff member selected what information they
wanted to disclose and posted it themselves. All requests for staff
information (eg name, email address) from (eg) students were referred to
the relevant page. This policy avoided accidental or intentional
disclose of personal information.

If, for example, gentoo wanted to use such information in, say the
weekly news letter, the newsletter writer could refer to the relevant
page and see what info was available for use.

Thanks,
Brett


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Re: [gentoo-dev] ATTN ALL DEVS - REGARDING PRIVATE INFO

[foser]

Hi,

can you refrain from using all caps in your subjects in the future ?
Thank you. Now, isn't this a -core issue, i mean it clearly involves
only devs and it think it gets way better picked up there than here
where there's so much traffic.

- foser


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