Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-12-03 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns wrote: 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

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: 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: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:46:55 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:10:11PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: b) I do not want to be associated with the post in question In other words, if this showed up in google it may hurt my future job prospects post

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:55:09 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:15:21PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Does Author A's mail get outed anyway as part of author B's response? In other wrods, shall the declassification committee redact quotes in mails

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:10:11PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: b) I do not want to be associated with the post in question In other words, if this showed up in google it may hurt my future job prospects post ;-). In this case, the post can be published, just every

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:38:54 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: So, the way I would think it'd work is: 1) team selects one or two months worth of -private posts to declassify 2) team goes through the posts, marking any that shouldn't be

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:15:21PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Does Author A's mail get outed anyway as part of author B's response? In other wrods, shall the declassification committee redact quotes in mails the primary author has said is OK to the publish, but in the scenario

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 03.08, Anthony Towns wrote: [...] And beyond that, there really are a lot of good ideas stuck in the -private archives that it'd be nice to be able to refer to properly. This seems to be the only reason to me - the other stated reasons can be paraphrased as 'because

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za, 19-11-2005 te 21:22 +0100, schreef Eduard Bloch: And I cannot see much value that outside world would get from having read access to -private but a much more serious problem with practically uncontrolled disclosure of information that was guaranteed to be not for public use until the

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Anthony Towns [Tue, Nov 15 2005, 12:08:15PM]: Hello world, One of the issues Debian often stands for is transparency and openness -- indeed, the openness of our bug tracking system is codified in the Social Contract's statement We will not hide problems. However, one

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:04:43AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: I'm not really seeing how much more straightforward that makes it anyway? Currently, the team will have to select posts, and then for each of them, contact the author and wait between 4 and 8 weeks. There may be a few posts

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-16 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2005-11-15 às 12:08 +1000, Anthony Towns escreveu: I think the easiest way to do that is to adopt an approach similar to that of governments that deal with classified documents; that is by setting a specific time after which -private posts will be required to be considered for

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-16 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Anthony Towns [Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:03:39 +1000]: Hi, On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:10:37PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: If, on the other hand (but this may be better the scope of another GR? I'm not sure, just mention if you think it is), this proposal is accompanied by a change in

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:00:57 -0500, Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: + comment; and requests by the authors of the post shall be + honoured. If you're going to respect authors' wishes, how would that differ substantially from the current situation? The scenarios and proposals,

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op ma, 14-11-2005 te 23:24 -0600, schreef Manoj Srivastava: ## In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, Debian will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or ongoing significance made to

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:52:02AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Perhaps a sensible compromise between your position and Anthony's could be to propose that requests of authors be honoured unless a compelling reason to the contrary is presented and explained, yada yada. But I'm not going to

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Manoj! You wrote: Here is my proposed change, that would make the process opt-in by the actual authors, and still give a hearing to any others who may be affected. I think this process allows people who may have posted only under the protection of the privacy umbrella, while

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di, 15-11-2005 te 02:05 -0800, schreef Steve Langasek: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:52:02AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Perhaps a sensible compromise between your position and Anthony's could be to propose that requests of authors be honoured unless a compelling reason to the contrary is

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
* John Lightsey [Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:40:31 -0600]: For a policy going forward I would have no objections to sharing messages which are not explicitly affirmed as private. I am concerned about this. As the proposal currently stands, to declassify mails sent after the GR is passed, the same

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [051115 03:12]: 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. [...] * The team will automatically declassify

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:40:31AM -0600, John Lightsey wrote: I would be against revealing messages written by or containing excerpts written by former DDs who have died or disappeared. I think that's backwards; it seems like it'd make /more/ sense to publish messages from DDs who've passed

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:10:37PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: If, on the other hand (but this may be better the scope of another GR? I'm not sure, just mention if you think it is), this proposal is accompanied by a change in -privacy policy from now on, namely posts will be

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:53:28PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [051115 03:12]: 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: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread John Lightsey
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 10:37 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:40:31AM -0600, John Lightsey wrote: I would be against revealing messages written by or containing excerpts written by former DDs who have died or disappeared. I think that's backwards; it seems like it'd

GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, One of the issues Debian often stands for is transparency and openness -- indeed, the openness of our bug tracking system is codified in the Social Contract's statement We will not hide problems. However, one particular area of significance within the project is not open at all: the

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have one comment on this: when the posts were made, they were made under the mantilla of a promise of privacy; I think it is wrong to retroactively change the rules without asking the authors for permission to publish. So, change the redaction rules to always listen to

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: Thus, I propose that the Debian project resolve that: --- 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.

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:38:09PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I have one comment on this: when the posts were made, they were made under the mantilla of a promise of privacy; I think it is wrong to retroactively change the rules without asking the authors for permission to

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:01:16PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: I would suggest that declassification of posts affected by a GR be put on hold if a proposal is made for a GR while the GR process takes place [since the absolute minimum time that a GR can take is 2 weeks.] 4.2.2.1 does cover

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-14 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: Comments, suggestions and seconds appreciated. I'm very happy to second this proposal, since it saves me the bother of finishing the rough draft of the same thing I've been sitting on for a year, and is much more thought out to boot. Clearly an idea whose time has come. :-)

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Here is my proposed change, that would make the process opt-in by the actual authors, and still give a hearing to any others who may be affected. I think this process allows people who may have posted only under the protection of the privacy umbrella, while still allowing the

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-14 Thread John Lightsey
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:24 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Here is my proposed change, that would make the process opt-in by the actual authors, and still give a hearing to any others who may be affected. I think this process allows people who may have posted only under the