Call for votes: Repeal the 2005 vote for declassification of the debian-private mailing list
Debian Project Secretary,
It has been two weeks since I posted my GR proposal [1] to the
debian-vote mailing list, containing the text that follows:
[1] Message-ID: <20160902041505.GD3030@gwolf.org>
=== 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list archives" is repealed.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 ===
This text was seconded by Thibaut Paumard [2], Didier Raboud [3], Bart
Martens [4], Holger Levsen [5], Ondrej Sury [6].
[2] <640be3bf-1a3b-3396-18d0-17422f88ee33@debian.org>
[3] <2441667.sC8J3kiFyD@gyllingar>
[4] <1474443004.3643.2.camel@debian.org>
[5] <20160908143232.GA29504@layer-acht.org>
[6] <20160919194619.GA27196@lettie.labs.nic.cz>
There are two other proposals that should be part of this same vote:
Ian Jackson's, informally proposed as follows, and formally proposed
on [7]:
=== BEGIN GR TEXT ===
Title: Acknowledge difficulty of declassifying debian-private
1. The Debian Project regrets the non-implementation of the 2005
General Resolution titled "Declassification of debian-private list
archives". That General Resolution is hereby repealed.
2. In case volunteers should come forward: Permission remains for the
list archives (of any messages, whether posted before or after
this resolution) to be declassified, provided that the
declassification process is at least as respecting of the privacy
of posters to debian-private as the process set out in the 2005
General Resolution.
3. Furthermore, the Debian listmasters remain empowered (subject to
the usual consultation processes within the Debian project) to
revise the rules governing the privacy and declassification of
messages to -private. This includes making measures to make
declassification more widely applicable, or easier to automate.
4. But, any weakening of the privacy expectations must not be
retrospective: changes should apply only to messages posted after
the rule change has come into force.
5. In particular, we reaffirm this rule: no part of a posting made to
-private, which explicitly states that it should not be
declassified, may be published (without its author's explicit
consent). This rule may be changed by the listmasters (para.3,
above), but only for future messages (para.4, above), and only
following consultation, and only with ample notice.
5. Participants are reminded to use -private only when necessary.
=== END GR TEXT ===
[7] <22482.58110.714165.864125@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Ian's proposal is seconded by Micha Lenk [8], myself [9], Thibaut
Paumard [A], Bas Wijnen [B], Iustin Pop [C]
[8] <41c0a2f7-fd74-f771-ff20-2da2e0e20c60@debian.org>
[9] <20160909214418.GB70246@gwolf.org>
[A] <95941b08-9a21-0a7c-19a8-305f6992d427@debian.org>
[B] <20160921111048.GA5695@spark.dtdns.net>
[C] <20160930211510.zfia4zblg37wwwvh@teal.hq.k1024.org>
Iain lane proposed a third option [D], which reads:
========================================================================
Title: debian-private shall remain private
The text of the GR is replaced with the following.
1. The 2005 General Resolution titled "Declassification of
debian-private list archives" is repealed.
2. There shall be no declassification of any portion of the
debian-private archives, except in the following
circumstances.
2a. Participants may declassify their own material.
2b. Participants may declassify the material of others where
consent has explicitly been given by the authors of all of the
material being declassified.
3. Participants are reminded to use -private only when necessary.
========================================================================
[D] <20160921100150.yccodof5hrb2szyr@nightingale>
Iain's proposal is seconded by Steve M. Robbins [E], Martin Krafft
[F], Ritesh Raj Sarraf [G], Didier Raboud [H], Brend Zeimetz [I]
[E] <1683290.Ra2cpX6gGv@riemann>
[F] <20160922054733.h4gfzhivpqlcrg37@fishbowl.rw.madduck.net>
[G] <1474532367.3027.1.camel@researchut.com>
[H] <1517510.T7ciT8dn6h@gyllingar>
[I] <f3e16abf-09f9-38a6-35ea-f3c4eaf866b5@debian.org>
Having all options reached the needed number of Seconds, and following
TTBOMK the Debian Constitution (particularly section A.2), I hereby
call for a vote on this issue.
Thank you very much,
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