On May 10, 2017 3:20:49 PM EDT, Jonathan Dowland <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:55:33AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> Participation in Debian is voluntary, so saying information >disclosure is >> voluntary doesn't really mean anything. > >Evidently it does mean something, since here we are discussing it. > >> I object to the existence of such a registry because just because >it's >> 'voluntary' now, doesn't mean it won't be effectively mandatory due >to either >> new project rules or social pressures later. > >If you object to mandatory impositions, why are you advocating to >mandate >preventing people such as I from declaring interest, if we so wish?
I have no objection to what individuals do or don't do regarding such disclosures. Declare all you want. The project creating a centralized information repository is an entirely different thing. Scott K
