Re: What the social contract actually says
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Thank you for posting in public, matthew!
On 04-01-2005 23:28, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The social contract says that our bug database will be publicly
> available. That's all.
Right.
[I would've added something here, but then realized that I would be
revealing secrets: text by you in same thread but posted only to
- -private and not permitted public quoting - quite frustrating!]
> Yes, that's a limited definition of "problems", but it's *our*
> definition of problems. It's up to individuals to decide whether they
> should speak publicly or privately. Your definition would appear to
> preclude the use of #debian-devel (it's not publicly logged), private
> mails between developers (they might discuss problems!) or developers
> discussing any sort of awkward issue when they happen to meet each other
> (unless it's recorded and put online afterwards, of course).
I am not against secrets. I am against non-secrets held secret.
All emails posted to -private has an implicit "...and don't you dare
tell anyone outside of Debian" attached if not explicitly declared
differently. That is (to my knowledge) not the case with either
#debian-devel or private discussions.
- - Jonas
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* Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
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