On Oct 2, 2025, at 11:36 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Also, I suppose a related question is, do you think anyone would have any >> objection to their name being listed on such a document on an Apache >> website? I cannot personally think why they would (and this is all >> already-public data) but I suppose it is possible that someone might, and I >> want to be sensitive to that. > > AIUI, just because a particular item of PII is published in one > location does not mean it can be published elsewhere.
Yeah, that’s what I was a little concerned about. The legalities (and, indeed, just individual preferences or sensitivities) around aggregating metrics remains a bit fuzzy to me. Do you think that this is better kept to myself, then? > Does the data have to be fully public? > Indeed would it mean anything to the general public? I think it’s most valuable to other contributors on the same project - who are not necessarily committers or PMC members. What I’m specifically trying to encourage with this data is for individuals on projects to welcome and celebrate new community participants, and milestones of existing participants, since that kind of recognition tends to lead to higher retention rates, according to research that I’ve seen at several recent conferences. And that is, after all, the mandate of this PMC. But I do want to do this in a way that is respectful to those same contributors. — Rich Bowen [email protected]
