On 01/13/2015 08:23 AM, Kuvaja, Erno wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Thierry Carrez [mailto:thie...@openstack.org] >> Sent: 13 January 2015 13:02 >> To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] IRC logging >> >> Kuvaja, Erno wrote: >>> [...] >>> 1) One does not need to express themselves in a way that is for public. ( >> Misunderstandings can be corrected on the fly if needed. ) There is no need >> to explain to anyone reading the logs what you actually meant during the >> conversation month ago. >>> 2) there is level of confidentiality within that defined audience. ( >>> For example someone not familiar with the processes thinks they have >>> found security vulnerability and comes to the IRC-channel to ask >>> second opinion. Those details are not public and that bug can still be >>> raised and dealt properly. Once the discussion is logged and the logs >>> are publicly available the details are publicly available as well. ) >>> 3) That defined audience does not usually limit content. I have no problem >> to throw my e-mail address, phone number etc. into the channel, I would not >> yell them out publicly. >>> [...] >> >> All 3 arguments point to issues you have with *public* channels, not >> *logged* channels. >> >> Our IRC channels are, in effect, already public. Anyone can join them, anyone >> can log them. An embargoed vulnerability discussed on an IRC channel >> (logged or not) should be considered leaked. I agree that logging makes it >> easier for random people to access that already-public information, but you >> can't consider an IRC channel private (and change your communication style >> or content) because it's not logged by eavesdrop. >> >> What you seem to be after is a private, invitation-only IRC channel. >> That's an orthogonal issue to the concept of logging. > > Nope, what I'm saying is that I'm opposing public logging to the level that I > will not be part if it will be enabled. If someone start publishing the logs > they collect from the channel my response is the same I will ask to stop > doing that and if it's not enough I will just leave. I do not use tinfoil > hat nor live in a bubble thinking that information is private but I prefer > not to make it more obvious. And your private channel would not solve > "someone logging and publishing the logs" anyways, any level of privacy in > the communication is based on trust was it participants, service/venue > providers or something else so lets not make it more difficult than it is.
This is an extremely confusing point of view to me when it comes to a channel dedicated to the development of a piece Open Source Software. All the various artifacts on how we got to a piece of software are valuable in the future maintenance of it, as well as realizing why we did not go down certain paths in the past. -Sean -- Sean Dague http://dague.net __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev