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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PSA: Do not use "Reported-By" without reporter's approval
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 13:00:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <05f565be52179acd1128b51a6e0cf055882ce78b.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190522195804.GC21412@chatter.i7.local>

On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 15:58 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:45:06PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > It is common courtesy to include this tagline when submitting 
> > > patches:
> > > 
> > > Reported-By: J. Doe <jdoe@example.com>
> > > 
> > > Please ask the reporter's permission before doing so (even if they'd
> > > submitted a public bugzilla report or sent a report to the mailing
> > > list).
> > 
> > I disagree with this.
> > 
> > If the report is public, and lists like vger are public,
> > then using a Reported-by: and/or a Link: are simply useful
> > history and tracking information.
> 
> I'm perfectly fine with Link:, however Reported-By: usually has the 
> person's name and email address (i.e. PII data per GDPR definition).

So?

Like I wrote, if that report came from a public list, that
report _also_ contained the person's name and email address.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-22 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-22 19:30 Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-05-22 19:45 ` Joe Perches
2019-05-22 19:58   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-05-22 20:00     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2019-05-24  4:57     ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-05-24 12:54       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-05-24 15:06         ` Joe Perches
2019-05-23  5:53 ` Bhaskar Chowdhury

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