On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 01:46:00PM +0000, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: > Consent > ------- > > I feel like we're currently balancing on a thin cobweb of fait accompli. > Are such decisions team internal or do they require the consent of the > project?
There is no notion of a project consent in Debian, apart from a GR. > How does this entire issue relate to the GDPR? It does not, as this information does not contain personal data. > How does this relate to our Social Contract? > > - 4. "Our priorities are our users and free software". This is very > vague but one could argue that this paragraph is not entirely > respected. It is. We try to provide our users the best service we can. > Data > ---- > > Google Cloud storage is tightly linked to their AI & big data analytics > features which I personally find highly questionable. Please explain. Google Cloud storage is just a large disk. The analytics stuff can access the data if it got the authorization to access it. > As this > intelligent cute monster feeds on data and metadata, it's part of its > ecosystem to provide free services in order to get more free food. > (Mentioning this because Marco d'Itri was raising the issue of having to > pay for storage.) Google Cloud storage is no free service. We certainly pay for it; with Google's money, but still. > To end with, I believe that a self-hosted solution would address all of > these issues. This is nice, but incorrect. Regards, Bastian -- The sight of death frightens them [Earthers]. -- Kras the Klingon, "Friday's Child", stardate 3497.2