On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 03:37:08PM +0200, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: > In 2005, the body of Debian Developers passed a General Resolution[1] > requiring the creation of a declassification team for the > debian-private mailing list. For the past ten years, the > implementation of this GR has never materialized, despite an explicit > call for volunteers[2] by the DPL in 2010. > > [1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2005/vote_002 > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/05/msg00105.html > > Over the years, several important discussions have happened on the > debian-private mailing list that needed to stay private. Oftentimes, when a > discussion has carried on for a while, some participants have reminded others > that the discussion should be summarized in a public thread on either the > debian-devel or the debian-project mailing lists. > > While we agree with the intentions behind the original GR, we believe it is now > time to acknowledge that the declassification of debian-private will never > happen, and that we should instead strongly encourage developers to move > discussions to public channels as soon as the sensitivity of the discussion > subsides. > > We therefore propose the following General Resolution: > > === BEGIN GR TEXT === > > Title: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private. > > 1. The 2005 General Resolution titled "Declassification of debian-private > list archives" is repealed. > 2. In keeping with paragraph 3 of the Debian Social Contract, Debian > Developers are strongly encouraged to use the debian-private mailing > list only for discussions that should not be disclosed. > > === END GR TEXT === > > Thanks for your consideration, Seconded. J. --
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