Re: making developer location from ldap public?
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 15:37 +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> db.debian.org contains (optional) fields for the location of each
> developer, an information which currently is only used to generate
> edwards's fancy maps. there are other potential uses for this, like
> making it possible to find fellow debian developers at some place that
> you are going to for business or a vacation, and inviting them to a
> drink and some keysigning. imho this would be pretty cool, but brings
> with it a small problem: it would in effect make that information
> public, in the moment it is only accessible to debian developers.
You haven't explained why letting other DDs know this information, which
is available to them already, requires the whole world to know it.
If you have some proposals for letting non-DDs have the data, you need
to explain what they are.
Oliver Elphick
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