Hello, There are two lists in Debian without a clear topic: debian-private and debian-curiosa, and the only difference between the two lists is on who can subscribe to them and whether they are publicly archived. Since point 3 of the Social Contract says "We will not hide problems", it can be argued (though not by me) that debian-private is just debian-curiosa plus a violation of the social contract, and that this situation must be rectified. I therefore do not propose the following General Resolution: === BEGIN NON-GR TEXT === Title: merge debian-private into debian-curiosa. 1. Any GR mentioning debian-private, starting from the 2005 General Resolution titled "Declassification of debian-private list archives" and up to the time this General Resolution is approved, are repealed. 2. The debian-private mailing list is closed, and replaced by an alias to debian-curiosa. 3. All new Debian Developers will be automatically subscribed to debian-curiosa instead of debian-private. 4. All debian-private archives currently being privately kept on master.debian.org will be merged into the public archives of debian-curiosa. === END NON-GR TEXT === I do not propose this GR, because I believe that although our work does not have a right to privacy, our members do, and there have been, there are, and there will be cases in which an aspect of the personal life of one or more of our members will be up for discussion, so we do need a private list. However, I want to make the point that anyone who finds it effective to rely on the outcome of a GR to enforce the privacy of debian-private, and does not trust for that purpose the judgement of a current or future majority of active DDs, should probably consider not ever disclosing anything private on any piece of infrastructure controlled by Debian. Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/634F4BD1E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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