Re: Unit 193: Declaration of intent

[Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>]

Greetings, Henrique,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 09:16:17AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
> > To the community : Should we accept pure pseudo "identifications" in
> > Debian ? I must say that this trend would not make me happy at all.
>
> We already do, but I would be lying if I said this makes me comfortable
> as a general trend.
>
> Note: I have nothing against "unit 193" specifically, this is a general
> issue.  So, I am *not* speaking against his/her acceptance as a DM or
> DD.
>
> I would be comfortable enough with pseudonym use by DMs as long as the
> DAMs and project leader know their real identities (and that said
> identities were verified).  IMHO, it is also acceptable for that
> information to be kept permanently private and known only to the DAMs
> and project leaders, but it does need to be forwarded to new DAMs and
> project leaders.
>
> i.e. something like the policy described in:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2009/07/msg00044.html
>
> Even with such provisions, I feel pseudonyms ought to be kept as rare
> exceptions, reserved to those that *prove* (to the project leader and
> DAMs) to have very good, very strong reasons to *need* to keep their
> real world identities hidden.

You somehow have a better wording than I had, but this is the way I feel also.

I find it interesting to have that feedback, as the one of Antonio, earlier on
debian-newmaint@.

Cheers,
Filippo

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