Christian Perrier wrote:
There is no need to attach responses to the single people. One could gather data and thereafter anonymise it.And, as Erinn already stated, the intent "behind" the proposal was just having a way to get statistical data, in a more precise way than just counting people we "know" are women.
Wouldn´t it be interesting to look into other fields as well. If Debian´s aim is to be a universial os it would be interesting to know more about its producers? As said above: no need to link such data to names.The gender/sex argument was raised just after I proposed this, as well as the "if we have a gender field, why not a race/religion/whatever field"....both being actually very valid arguments, which explain why I didn't really insisted on this topic and currently have a very "shared" opinion about this being or not a good idea...:-)
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