On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:09:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Thus, I propose that the Debian project resolve that: > > --- > 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 that are three or more years old, with the following > exceptions: > > - the author and other individuals quoted in messages being reviewed > will be contacted, and allowed between four and eight weeks > to comment; > > - posts that reveal financial information about individuals or > organisations other than Debian, will have that information > removed; > > - requests by the author of a post for that post not to be published > will be honoured; > > - 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 information is removed, will not be published, unless the author 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; > > - comments by others who would be affected by the publication of > the post will also 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 by General > Resolution, if necessary -- in the event such a resolution is > introduced (ie, proposed and sponsored), the declassification > and publication of messages specified by the resolution will be > deferred until the resolution has been voted on. > --- I second this proposal. Kurt
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