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On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 11:32:33AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Sun, 14 Jul 2019, Robin H Johnson wrote: |
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> > Demographics, all optional: |
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> > - Where are you located: [textfield, ISO country code] |
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> > - Age bracket [0-17, 18-25, 25-35, 35-45, 45-55, 55-65, 65+] |
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> The combination of these two will in many cases allow to uniquely |
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> identify the developer. There are countries with only one dev, and |
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> there won't be many persons in the low and high age brackets. |
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> These questions are optional of course, but then again, they won't be |
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> of any help if nobody will choose to answer them because of the above. |
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Yes, the answers if published in full may uniquely identify some |
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developers. I would propose redacting the value of those fields for |
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entries with high uniqueness. |
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However, I would point out that developers ALREADY reveal their country |
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in the public parts of their LDAP data. |
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The age bracket is the only change here, and I'm less convinced of the |
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value of age bracket in this survey, so we could probably drop it. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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