On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:59:37AM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:42:12PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > I don't understand why making it possible to find fellow Debian > > Developers this way should in effect make the information public. > > > > Why not simply hide it behind the password screen? > > because it's not only targeted at debian developers, but also at new > maintainers, contributors who are not even in the nm queue (there are > many of them), and even interested users or people who want to become > more involved
People who want to get more involved usually first target a local LUG (linux user group) or attend free software events or whatever to meet people involved in FLOSS (including Debian developers). They might even use a i18n mailing list (there are some localised debian-devel-xxxx lists), presents themselves and suggest meeting for a beer. They don't walk to your house, knock on your door and say "Hi! I just got your coordinates from db.debian.org, wanna meet and keysign?". For what I know, not even Debian developers traveling use db.debian.org to get the coordinates of people near by and contact them through e-mail. They send a [VAC] announcement to debian-private and suggest people in the area contact them to arrange a meeting. Regards Javier
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