Re: [gentoo-project] Date-of-birth in developer applications

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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>>>>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Michał Górny wrote:

> W dniu śro, 20.06.2018 o godzinie 10∶24 +0200, użytkownik Kristian
> Fiskerstrand napisał:
>> Immediately I can think of two good reasons for this information,
>> (i) as a disambiguifier for matching names, at least across europe
>> it is common to refer to an individual "A born DD.MM.YYYY",

> Please tell me, how many times did we have to disambiguate two
> developers using the same name? Even if we ever have to do that, do
> you really think we'd use one's birthday all over the place?

At least once. While we researched the copyright forms, we wondered
why there were two entries in LDAP with a different nick, but with the
same name and approximately the same location.

>> (ii) verify legal age for entering into agreements. One can argue
>> that without further verification of (ii) it has less value, but at
>> least that would be a misrepresentation so shifting the question a
>> bit if it ever becomes an issue with FLA/DCO etc.

> a. 'Legal age' may differ per country, so birth date alone is not
> very useful.

> b. There is no reason to store the full birth date if all we need is
> a boolean whether someone is of 'legal age'.

How would you determine when to flip that bit?

> c. We don't even have any clue what to do if someone is *not* of
> 'legal age'.

And closing our eyes would improve that situation?

Ulrich

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