[Ambassadors] FAMSCO trac hidden for ambassadors (was Re: Yesterdays EMEA Ambassadors Meeting)

[Max Spevack]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Mathieu Bridon wrote:

>> So IMO the information is not private, or it is so confidential that 
>> it shouldn't even be in trac. Confidential information can still be 
>> exchanged via email, FAMSCO is only a small number of people.
>
> In your list, the only information that I think is private are the 
> personal shipping address. But to me, the reason why it should not 
> appear in Trac is that it can change, especially for younger people 
> who tend to move a lot (going to university, then moving to another 
> city for a job, then changing appartment when they start earning a 
> little more money,...). So even if you let aside the privacy concerns, 
> it doesn't really make a lot of sense to be archiving it in Trac.
>
>> Last but not least: How many tickets are affected? I guess it is very 
>> a small percentage and the large majority is info that concerns all 
>> ambassadors.
>
> The problem is that if you want to open it now, you'd have to read 
> *all* tickets to see if there are some personal data that need to be 
> removed. So you can't count the number of tickets affected, you have 
> to count the total number of tickets.
>
> Anyway, consider that as a huge +1 for opening the FAmSCo Trac. Having 
> the links to tickets in reports but being unable to read them is 
> frustrating, especially if you're directly concerned by the ticket. 
> And think about it as a way for us of the plebs to get to know better 
> what FAmSCo is doing :)

Honestly, I think that we can open the FAMSCO trac instance up.  I was 
worried about confidential information when we first set it up, but I 
think time has shown that it isn't really an issue.

/me adds a vote on this to the agenda for the next FAMSCO meeting.

--Max