From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:38:30 +0100 Message-ID: <8736e9h7m1.fsf@gnus.org> References: <20191117113054.49837.qmail@mail.muc.de> <87y2wexsv1.fsf@telefonica.net> <20191118175639.08d02820@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <874kz0pa9y.fsf@gnus.org> <87sgmjyn60.fsf@gmx.de> <87imnezyt5.fsf@gmx.de> <481a1f16-d661-0f96-2f45-3d5ec9c1132e@yandex.ru> <871ru0t7p8.fsf@gnus.org> <7a7f8955-ec5f-4e1e-b258-19379588516a@default> <86sgmftq1m.fsf@zoho.eu> <87a78k8mka.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <868so4bdsi.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="239233"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: moasenwood@zoho.eu, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 27 12:38:48 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iZveh-00102L-BA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:38:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37256 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iZveg-0002pf-4i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:38:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iZveZ-0002pW-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:38:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iZveY-0003dG-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2]:42734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iZveY-0003c9-9x; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:38:38 -0500 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iZveR-00017S-Ij; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:38:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:44:14 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242783 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > The specific problem here is that report-emacs-bug includes data that > might be sensitive. It would be good to remind people that they don't > have to send that data, and help them avoid it if/when they want to. > But let's do that in the simplest possible way. The "Recent messages" bit in the bug reports is a bomb just waiting to blow up. At some point somebody will be doing some mining of the bug repo for "interesting" messages and do a write-up of how horribly lax the GNU project it with people's privacy. And they'd be correct: I think including that bit in the bug report is indefensible. (Not to mention useless.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no