Bug#680109: Advice on bug #680109 (proposal would break translations of the website footer)

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:34:41AM +0200, Laura Arjona Reina a écrit :
> 
> I'm attaching a new patch, that would change that to:
> 
> "To report a problem with the web site, and other contact information,
> see the Debian contact page."
> 
> Note that this would break translations as the former one, so i18n
> advice about how to handle that is still welcome :)
> 
> In contact page ( https://www.debian.org/contact ), we already have
> (among other info):
> 
> * "Please note that most of the e-mail addresses below represent open
> mailing lists with public archives. Read the disclaimer before sending
> any messages."

Hi again,

I also like the idea to remove the mailto link to debian-www@l.d.o from the
footer, so that only the link to the contact page remains.

However, the disclaimer above, that "most (...) adresses (...) represent open
mailing lists" is not accurate.  Here is the list of the adresses on the contact page.

 - debian-project@lists.debian.org    -> public archived list
 -    debian-user@lists.debian.org    -> public archived list
 -    debian-boot@lists.debian.org    -> public archived list
 -        mirrors@debian.org          -> not a list
 -  package name>@packages.debian.org -> depends
 -       security@debian.org          -> not a list, information "discreet"
 -   debian-devel@lists.debian.org    -> public archived list
 -     debian-www@lists.debian.org    -> public archived list
 -          admin@db.debian.org       -> not a list.  Obsolete ? (not listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA)
 -     listmaster@lists.debian.org    -> not a list (not sure about confidentiality)
 -          owner@bugs.debian.org     -> not a list (not confidential ?)
 - antiharassment@debian.org          -> not a list (confidential ?)

With 5 or 6 out of 12, I would not say that open mailing lists are "most" of the addresses.

So I think that the best would be to have the disclaimer to say that addresses
"may" be a public list, and for each address listed on the page, be explicit on
publicity and confidentiality.

I can prepare a patch unless Laura or somebody else is up for (I am a bit short
of time).

Have a nice day,

Charles

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Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan