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

[Michał Górny]

W dniu śro, 20.06.2018 o godzinie 10∶47 +0200, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller
napisał:
> > > > > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Michał Górny wrote:
> > I'd like to revive the topic of requiring date-of-birth for
> > developers. Currently, we 'require' this date in developer
> > applications and store it in our LDAP (it's not public). However,
> > I'm not aware of any good justification for collecting this kind of
> > personal information.
>
> IANAL, but won't this be relevant once we require Signed-off-by lines
> with our commits?
>
> Also, the information can be useful for statistical purposes. For
> example, I had shown an age distribution of devs in a previous talk
> of mine: https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/talks/intro_to_gentoo.tar.xz
> (page 34 there).
>

I don't recall agreeing to my birth date being used for statistical
purposes.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny