[Mageia-sysadm] [RPM] cauldron core/release tagtool-0.12.3-2.mga1

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Thu Mar 3 14:58:08 CET 2011


On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:

> Le jeudi 03 mars 2011 à 11:07 +0100, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
> 
> > Giving your name is not a loss of privacy. Giving an email address
> > contact is not a loss of privacy. 
> 
> It depend to who you give it. And given
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privacy , I think it can be
> qualified to be, yes. 
> 
> So while some people do not see problem with this, some others do, and
> we should listen to their wishes. After a quick check, there is around
> 10 people out of 250 in the directory with obviously fake names ( cause
> I think no one is called "palm pre" ).
> 
> Some people may have very good reasons to not wanting to give their real
> name or email address. I know several companies where the manager is ok
> to send stuff upstream, but do not the name of the company to be
> mentioned ( for example some divisions of France Telecom do this and
> there is also some rumors about Trolltech doing the same before Nokia
> era ). 

I think that's not a problem here. We're not checking ID of people who
create accounts, so they can use the name they want to be called. They
are also not forced to use their work email, they can create an email
just for this.

So I don't know what the problem is exactly.



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