Hi Manoj! You wrote:
> Here is my proposed change, that would make the process opt-in > by the actual authors, and still give a hearing to any others who may > be affected. I think this process allows people who may have posted > only under the protection of the privacy umbrella, while still > allowing the process of publication to go ahead. > > Mind you, this is not strictly opt-in, since the authors get > between 4-8 weeks to send in their veto, and so the publication is > not held up by people who can no longer be contacted. I must say I > still have some misgivings about this (we are changing our privacy > statement with regards to the mailing list, after all), but I see > this as a compromise between a strict opt-in that can cause things to > be held up by people we can no longer contact. > > ###################################################################### > In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, > Debian will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or > ongoing significance made to the Debian Private Mailing List. > > This process will be undertaken under the following constraints: > > * The Debian Project Leader will delegate one or more volunteers > to form the "debian-private declassification team". > > * The team will automatically declassify and publish posts made to > that list after three years, with the following exceptions: > > - the author and any named recipients of messages being reviewed > will be contacted, and allowed between four and eight weeks to > - comment; > + comment; and requests by the authors of the post shall be > + honoured. > > - posts that reveal financial information about individuals or > organisations other than Debian, will have that information > removed; > > - posts of no historical or other relevance, such as vacation > announcements, or posts that have no content after personal > information is removed, will not be published, unless the > author requests they be published; > > - publication of posts that would reveal otherwise unpublished > security vulnerabilities in currently supported releases of a > Debian distribution will be deferred; > > - - requests by the authors of posts, or others who would be > + - requests by people other than the author who would be > affected by the publication of the post, will be taken into > account by the declassification team; > > - the list of posts to be declassified will be made available to > developers two weeks before publication, so that the decisions > of the team may be overruled by the developer body, if > necessary. > ###################################################################### I second this proposal, with the changes as proposed by Manoj. -- Kind regards, +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | |----------------------------| Fingerprint: c1f5 f24c d514 3fec 8bf6 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a2b1 2bae e41f 0644 fab7 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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