Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005, Horms wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:09:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: if there *really* are some DDs who volunteer to spend their time on old postings it is fine for me but because I think there are much more valuable tasks to do for the benefit of Debian I just

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: * Debian Project Secretary: In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, Debian will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or ongoing significance made to the Debian Private Mailing List. This

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:36:26AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 01 Dec 2005, Horms wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:09:25AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: if there *really* are some DDs who volunteer to spend their time on old postings it is fine for me but because I think there are

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I read the constitution correctly, you cannot decide such a thing by GR. Could you give us your reasoning why this isn't Issuing, superseding and withdrawing nontechnical policy documents and statements? In my opinion mailing list usage rules are

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kalle Kivimaa: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I read the constitution correctly, you cannot decide such a thing by GR. Could you give us your reasoning why this isn't Issuing, superseding and withdrawing nontechnical policy documents and statements? It's not the mailing list

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:04:31PM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: Text: The actual text of the GR is: In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, Debian will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or ongoing significance made to the Debian

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread MJ Ray
Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I see a glaring contradiction here: on the one hand, the opening paragraph talks about publishing selected posts: those with historical or ongoing significance, but the rest of the GR talks about declassifying *all* emails with stated exceptions. [...] I don't

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not the mailing list policy part, it's the mandated delegation by the DPL. I suppose a GR can create a declassification team, but a GR cannot force the DPL to create one by delegation. Well, a GR cannot force anybody to do anything, due to 2.1.1

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I like the proposed GR by Anthony Towns. I don't think it is against our constitution, and I don't see how it can be breaking any trust, since the authors and other affected people can prevent publication. To make my support more concrete: I expect this GR gets passed, so I hereby declare my

Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Rationale: I have been thinking about the kinds of reasons for not wanting to have a post to -private published. I came up with two major (reasonable) scenarios: a) The post contained sensitive material. In this case, if a reasonable case has been made for the

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Here is a diff from AJ's proposal. I am now formally seeking seconds for this modified proposal, which has explicit guidelines for the most common case for not wantng the posts to be published. Seconded.

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:35:02 +0200, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I like the proposed GR by Anthony Towns. I don't think it is against our constitution, and I don't see how it can be breaking any trust, since the authors and other affected people can prevent publication. It

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:32:59AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Here is a diff from AJ's proposal. I am now formally seeking seconds for this modified proposal, which has explicit guidelines for the most common case for not wantng the posts to be published. Seconded.

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2005-12-01 kello 09:04 -0600, Manoj Srivastava kirjoitti: On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:35:02 +0200, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I like the proposed GR by Anthony Towns. I don't think it is against our constitution, and I don't see how it can be breaking any trust, since the

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-12-01 Thread Moray Allan
Wouldn't it be better for people interested in opening the -private archives to try a pure opt-in approach first? (Which wouldn't require any change to current policies.) I can see an argument in favour of publishing a redacted version of the whole archive (with e.g. phone numbers and addresses

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:54:03AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Debian Project Secretary: In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, Debian will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or ongoing significance made to the Debian Private Mailing

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Jérôme Marant wrote: What is this supposed to mean? If no comments have been made by the author for eight weeks, messages will be automatically declassified? It looks like a kind of opt out to me. True. It may be an idea to have another proposed amendment reversing the logic, and see

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * The team will automatically declassify and publish posts made to that list that are three or more years old, with the following exceptions: - the author and other individuals quoted in messages being reviewed will be

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 01 December 2005 15.32, Manoj Srivastava wrote: +   - If the author indicates he does not wish to be associated with a +     post, any identifying information is redacted from that post, +     and any quotes in subsequent posts, but the rest of the material +     is published.

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:28:09 +0200, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: to, 2005-12-01 kello 09:04 -0600, Manoj Srivastava kirjoitti: On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:35:02 +0200, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I like the proposed GR by Anthony Towns. I don't think it is against our

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: a) The post contained sensitive material. In this case, if a reasonable case has been made for the material being sensitive, and one that the declassification teams accepted, then the material should be redacted from the post, and

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:55:37 +0100, Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 01 December 2005 15.32, Manoj Srivastava wrote: +   - If the author indicates he does not wish to be associated with a +     post, any identifying information is redacted from that post, +     and any

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
Here are the urls I didn't find for my other post: http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/nb/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2005/03/13/0 http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec2000/full_papers/rao/rao.pdf http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/NewsBruiser-2.6.1/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2005/04/06/0

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 08:32 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, ... - the author and other individuals quoted in messages being reviewed will be contacted, and allowed between four and eight weeks to comment; I think the default behaviour should be to keep the post private,

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:40:52AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:04:31PM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, Debian will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or ongoing

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:21:53AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Erm, as a point of order, as per A.2(4), the discussion period begins when the resolution was proposed (18th Nov) or the last amendment was accepted (which hasn't happened; the last amendment not accepted was formalised on

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:00:42PM +, Moray Allan wrote: Wouldn't it be better for people interested in opening the -private archives to try a pure opt-in approach first? (Which wouldn't require any change to current policies.) If most of the archive should be published, that's more of a

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:56:48PM +, Dave Holland wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:30:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: I think the default behaviour should be to keep the post private, not to open it up. That is, if the author and other individuals do not reply, the message is kept

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2005-12-01 às 08:32 -0600, Manoj Srivastava escreveu: a) The post contained sensitive material. In this case, if a reasonable case has been made for the material being sensitive, and one that the declassification teams accepted, then the material should be

Proposal for *Real* Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
As dicussion follows, I decided to formalize a proposal for a real declassification of the content on -private. As I said before, if we're going to choose which material is made public, we can't call it declassification. The main points are: 1) Everything except financial information about

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
(Followups to -vote) On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:30:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: The primary reason for this is that the existing messages were sent to debian-private with an expectation of privacy. As Matthew pointed out in [0] this expectation of privacy isn't really that strong,

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: As Matthew pointed out in [0] this expectation of privacy isn't really that strong, fundamentally because -private is open to anyone who joins Debian, and Debian's open to anyone joining it. [0]

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:06:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: As Matthew pointed out in [0] this expectation of privacy isn't really that strong, fundamentally because -private is open to anyone who joins Debian, and Debian's open to anyone

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Huh? As far as conduct guidelines go, there's give us a gpg key, do you know how to use it?, there's Do you agree to uphold the Social Contract and the DFSG in your Debian work? and there's Do you accept the Debian Machine Usage Policies? I

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 12:35 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: (Followups to -vote) On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:30:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: The primary reason for this is that the existing messages were sent to debian-private with an expectation of privacy. As Matthew pointed out in

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:37:18PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Reordering, trimming. Please note that I'm not saying this is a persuasive argument against the proposal. I still haven't made up my mind. I just think that the change in archive policy is a real, substantive change, and