Quoting fabienne s ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hello d-w, > > so i'm interested in what you think here on the list about including > someone's gender (i *think* that's what he meant by "sex" below) in the > debian developer's database? has this guy never seen the list on debian > women of developers and women in the nm queue? (see email quoted below > from debian-devel)
Well, if you follow the video from the talk of Erinn and Magni at Debconf, you'll see someone suggesting exactly this (namely myself). This should be about 1 hour from the beginning (I don't have the video here). This triggered a lot of reactions and not all of them were positive. Most of the people reacting against it raised that this would make us enter a kind of grey area where non technical information is put in the database. Please note that people who reacted against this proposal were most of the time people who are known to be very supportive of the d-w project, so this is actually a very debatable point. (I remember about Gerfried Fuchs but several others gave their opinion against this...while I remember of Frans Pop supporting it. Gerfried and I talked a lot later about this issue...I guess he will explain this here) This is mostly why I mentioned during this discussion that I more or less withdraw this proposal. (which does not prevent discussing it: I still partly think this could be interesting...but I'm pretty convinced that it will be very easy to find a satisfactory way to implement it) PS : I'm on my way to leave for holidays, which may explain why I don't participate in the further discussion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
