Re: developer database comments
> Jay> Personally, I think every developer should give their address
> Jay> and phone number as part of being accepted as a maintainer, but
> Jay> that is debatable.
>
> It is one thing to give my address and phone number when I
> become a developer, it is quite anouther to have that bruited over
> the web.
>
That informations will definitely not be public if the developer doesn't
want it public. The only question is whether we should bother letting
people choose to make their own public.
> In other words, I still have access control concerns. The
> other issue was licensing; I would not want a document distributed
> with a license permittig people to change just my email address or
> PGP key. Immutability was what killed the effort before, when Lindsay
> Allen and I gathered mainatiner data.
>
Don't remind me of that awful discussion. Take a look at
http://db.debian.org/issues and then comment.
Jay Treacy
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