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On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:31:14 -0500 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 7:05:30 PM EST Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 06:38:10 -0800 |
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> > Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > I think a more fair restriction would be to place it on Comrel and |
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> > > Council, as they are being trusted to not share private information. |
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> > > What the two (or more?) sides do in a dispute isn't something we can |
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> > > reasonably control, except on our own infrastructure. I find it |
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> > > unnecessary and meaningless to place sanctions on users or other |
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> > > participants of a conflict if they choose to make their communications |
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> > > public. It's /their/ dirty laundry, after all. |
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> > |
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> > This particular point, aside to ensuring that teams keep the necessary |
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> > secrecy, serves the goals: |
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> > |
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> > 1. to discourage users from taking 'revenge' on others by disclosing |
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> > their secrets, |
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> > 2. to discourage users from bickering and turning Gentoo into a public |
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> > stoning place whenever they are unhappy with a disciplinary decision. |
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> > The first point is more important. Consider the following case. Alice |
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> > tells Bob her secret. Some time later Bob starts bullying Alice. |
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> > Eventually, Alice files a complaint at ComRel and Bob gets banned. Now, |
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> > Bob wants to reveal Alice's secret to take revenge on her. |
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> Making everything public ensures no secrets. Privacy and secrecy should not |
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> exist or be needed for a public open source project. With the only exception |
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> being security vulnerabilities for obvious reason. |
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> Any event being handled likely started in public to begin with, thus should |
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> remain that way for 100% transparency. Also to ensure no problems with leaking |
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> or making private/secret information public. Solves many problems. |
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I can understand that you have no life outside Gentoo but some people |
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do, and they have a right to keep them private. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |