On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 17:20, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
I were a new joiner, and I did not want to appear in the listings, I'm not sure I would be happy to have to ask for my data to be omitted. > — > Rich Bowen > [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
