Hi Joan, On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 3:06 PM Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
> Awasum, > > On 2019-05-15 9:42 a.m., Awasum Yannick wrote: > > > If we really wanted to know the country/country/geographical distribution > > of our committers, the most reliable way to do it is to look at the iCLA > > files without displaying names of committers, just the countries and we > > will know for sure how geographically diverse we are. This will answer > some > > key questions like "is there a diversity problem?" and comments like > "Show > > me the facts supporting our lack of diversity" will be dealt with. Even > if > > its just one aspect of diversity(geographical). > > As signed documents with legal significance to the Foundation, the iCLAs > have legal protections that would likely prevent such usage. Signing > such documents usually makes them protected - I am not a lawyer, and > would defer to legal-discuss@ / the legal JIRA instance if you really > want to pursue this option. > > Maybe the real question should be: Is the country information important enough as a way to measure diversity? Our names and emails and other info are already displayed in Whimsy. Is the country info that sensitive? Please educate me.
