On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 05:27:25PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bart Martens wrote: > > I suggest we keep things civil, with respect for the persons involved. It's > > really not up to Debian to harm someone's reputation, and that could reflect > > bad on Debian's reputation.
> > Approaches I could support : > > - post the bans with reasons on debian-private > > - or maintain a list of bans with reasons in a text file on a Debian machine > > where DDs can read this info. > Simply obfuscating the name on the list of banned users (or not posting > any names at all, only links to the posts that led to the ban) would > eliminate most reputational damage. Ie, random searches for that > person would not turn up a high pagerank debian.org page listing their > youthful indiscretions. > Using eg "J. Hess" would probably be fine in most cases. This also seems like a good compromise to me. Do the other folks who object to publishing information that could damage the poster's reputation (e.g., Bart, Ingo) think this is ok? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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