Hi! I noticed that we are now showing gravatar on bugs.debian.org, and this got me wondering: We had a rather big discussion on what is acceptable for planet.debian.org with respect to "webbugs", flattr buttons and the likes, connected to tracking and browsing profiles. Somehow I have the same concerns with respect to now seeing gravatar pictures in the bugreports on bugs.debian.org.
It's not *that* big of a concern for me, but I somehow fail to see this issue completely different than what was discussed back then for planet. Why is the one use acceptable, the other not? Please don't turn this into another 150+ mail thread flame party, I just wanted to know if the same concerns should be ignored for gravatar (and if so, why?) and we want to keep it; or if we could maybe even get some caching proxy that wouldn't send over tracking information to gravatar but still allow people to use the visual recognition of the authors of the mails for enhanced processing speed. I'm torn appart on this personally: I am totally a fan of visual enhanced productivity helpers (syntax hilighting and folding in vim, VisualHostKey setting in ssh config, ...) -- but on the other hand, this shouldn't make us ignore the concerns that were raised with respect to privacy concerns for a similar web service that the project offers. How do others see this, what shall/can be done, or shall we ignore it? Rhonda -- Fühlst du dich mutlos, fass endlich Mut, los | Fühlst du dich hilflos, geh raus und hilf, los | Wir sind Helden Fühlst du dich machtlos, geh raus und mach, los | 23.55: Alles auf Anfang Fühlst du dich haltlos, such Halt und lass los | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130315113730.ga23...@anguilla.debian.or.at
