Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private
Hi,
Here is my proposed change, that would make the process opt-in
by the actual authors, and still give a hearing to any others who may
be affected. I think this process allows people who may have posted
only under the protection of the privacy umbrella, while still
allowing the process of publication to go ahead.
Mind you, this is not strictly opt-in, since the authors get
between 4-8 weeks to send in their veto, and so the publication is
not held up by people who can no longer be contacted. I must say I
still have some misgivings about this (we are changing our privacy
statement with regards to the mailing list, after all), but I see
this as a compromise between a strict opt-in that can cause things to
be held up by people we can no longer contact.
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In accordance with principles of openness and transparency,
Debian will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or
ongoing significance made to the Debian Private Mailing List.
This process will be undertaken under the following constraints:
* The Debian Project Leader will delegate one or more volunteers
to form the "debian-private declassification team".
* The team will automatically declassify and publish posts made to
that list after three years, with the following exceptions:
- the author and any named recipients of messages being reviewed
will be contacted, and allowed between four and eight weeks to
- comment;
+ comment; and requests by the authors of the post shall be
+ honoured.
- posts that reveal financial information about individuals or
organisations other than Debian, will have that information
removed;
- posts of no historical or other relevance, such as vacation
announcements, or posts that have no content after personal
information is removed, will not be published, unless the
author requests they be published;
- publication of posts that would reveal otherwise unpublished
security vulnerabilities in currently supported releases of a
Debian distribution will be deferred;
- - requests by the authors of posts, or others who would be
+ - requests by people other than the author who would be
affected by the publication of the post, will be taken into
account by the declassification team;
- the list of posts to be declassified will be made available to
developers two weeks before publication, so that the decisions
of the team may be overruled by the developer body, if
necessary.
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manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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