On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 mental@...32... wrote:
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:22:26 -0500 From: mental@...32... Reply-To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...233...> Cc: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...>, inkscape-devel@...84..., inkscape-user@...84... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: [Inkscape-devel] Jabber logging
Quoting "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...233...>:
I agree that it's not the place for really private discussion, but there are some things that get logged that are still of a "less than want to be googlable" nature.
I can sympathize, as I've definitely made a few regrettable comments over the years which are in the logs. However, it's a price I'm willing to pay for the sake of public accountability in Inkscape's development process.
I also agree that the logs can be valuable. What if we have them logged and internally searchable, but only accessible to devs?
How do we define "devs"?
Any registered user should be able to see what information is being held on them (and have an opportunity to make sure it is correct and maybe have their information removed). Plenty of places require users to be logged in to read mailing list archives, it is not an unreasonable requirement. No need to make elitist developer only information, all stakeholders should be able to see what is going on.
I think the bigger problem is making sure important issues are kept on the record and compiled into useful knowledge rather than logging absolutely all traffic and having mountains of raw data obscuring what is actually imprtant. Quality not quantity.
The idea of only keeping the logs for a limited time (as was suggested on the developer list) sounds helpful, and six months gives more than long enough for anyone who is genuinely interested to do something useful with it.
- Alan H.