On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:26:45AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting fabienne s (fabienne@fabienne.us): > > hello d-w, > > so i'm interested in what you think here on the list about including > > someone's gender (i *think* that's what he meant by "sex" below) in the > > debian developer's database? has this guy never seen the list on debian > > women of developers and women in the nm queue? (see email quoted below > > from debian-devel) > Well, if you follow the video from the talk of Erinn and Magni at > Debconf, you'll see someone suggesting exactly this (namely > myself). This should be about 1 hour from the beginning (I don't have > the video here). > This triggered a lot of reactions and not all of them were > positive. Most of the people reacting against it raised that this > would make us enter a kind of grey area where non technical > information is put in the database. Isn't mailing address information just as non-technical as a "sex" field would be, or the oft-requested jpegPhoto field? I'd rather have a birthdate field anyway, so DDs can be duly harrassed whenever they turn a year older. :-) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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