> On Oct 2, 2025, at 09:58, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
What we do know is that the contributors' github id and email address are public, assuming they appear in communications to the project's public mail lists. So I have no privacy concerns "publishing" these bits of PII after they are already public. In any event, at the time when they accept an invitation for committer, these bits will necessarily become public via announcement that they have been voted and accepted for committer. Craig > >> — >> Rich Bowen >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Craig L Russell [email protected]
