Fedora account restrictions

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:32:14 -0500
"Russell Harrison" <rtlm10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My understanding is that he isn't requesting to remain anonymous to
> the Fedora Project.  He's requesting that his name not be used in
> places visible to the Internet at large.  I'm not suggesting that we
> allow anonymous contributions.  I'm looking for a way to keep the
> personal data of a minor available to only fp members or a subset of
> members.  I do feel its important that all contributions be connected
> to an actual person.  Does that mean we have to broadcast that name to
> the rest of the Internet?

Not necessarily.  However I wouldn't feel comfortable stating that we
would keep it secret and then be on the hook should something happen
and it no longer be secret.  It's one thing to say we'll make every
attempt, but it's another to say we'll keep it private.  Add to that
convenient tools we have like IRC bots that can look up somebody's
Fedora account name and spit out their listed name and email address
for the sake of contacting them.  That's basically public information,
it would take a lot of work to turn that private.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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