We also seem to have quite long archives of mails on gentoo-managers@l.g.o mailing list. I'm not sure if that list was supposed to be private or public (or possibly dev-only, like -core). Apparently 'managers' were replaced by the Council, so the thing may fall under Council umbrella these days but I'm not sure. 1) Can we publish the archived mails on archives.g.o? 2) Can developers have access to those archives somehow? 3) Do I have specific permission to search them for issues related to copyright assignment?
(CC-ing infra in case they know more)
Ok, Robbins has looked into this and the archives contain some sensitive material and a low of insensitive things we don't really want to have published. At the same time, it contains the data we'd really use for the copyright project. My proposal would be to give access to the archives to the people working on copyright project for search purposes. This would include those of (Council, Trustees, robbat2, rich0) who explicitly ask for this. At the same time, they will be asked not to use, disclose or publish anything they found there without explicit permission from the poster. That said, we'll probably prepare a list of all mails we'd like to use and send a single combined request for permission. Since it is unclear who exactly inherited those archives, I would like *both* Council and Trustees to vote on this. If both groups approve, we'll proceed. Please vote in comments. If anyone feels like this bug should be restricted before casting his vote, please let me know.
Giving copyright team access: yes Inherited: as of GLEP 39 clearly by the council
I'm sorry, s/Robbins/Robin/
No use to have archives if we can't use them in one way or the other when we actually need it for digging through history. Making it available to a restricted set of people instead of a fully public archive of data that was previously expected to be private makes sense to me.
I abstain from voting. (I don't think that I have a conflict of interest, but let's have a separate council majority, in case that objection would be raised.)
I support the proposal in comment #2 "Give access to the archives to the people working on the copyright project for search purposes. This would include those of (Council, Trustees, robbat2, rich0) who explicitly ask for this. At the same time, they will be asked not to use, disclose or publish anything they find there without explicit permission from the poster."
yes to comment #2
Yes to comment 2
vote: yes as stated in #comment2
I support the proposal in comment #2
I vote 'yes'. In this case, we already have majority in both groups, so I'm going to call the motion passed.
Closing as resolved.
