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>>>>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> I'd like to revive the topic of requiring date-of-birth for |
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> developers. Currently, we 'require' this date in developer |
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> applications and store it in our LDAP (it's not public). However, |
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> I'm not aware of any good justification for collecting this kind of |
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> personal information. |
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IANAL, but won't this be relevant once we require Signed-off-by lines |
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with our commits? |
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Also, the information can be useful for statistical purposes. For |
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example, I had shown an age distribution of devs in a previous talk |
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of mine: https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/talks/intro_to_gentoo.tar.xz |
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(page 34 there). |
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Debian keeps dates of developers as well: |
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https://people.debian.org/~spaillard/developers-age-histogramm/ |
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Ulrich |
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