Re: PSA: Do not use "Reported-By" without reporter's approval

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2019-05-24 at 08:54 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:57:08AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > 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). If that pehrson
> > > submitted the bug report via bugzilla.kernel.org or a similar resource,
> > > their expectation is that they can delete their account should they choose
> > > to to do so. However, if the patch containing Reported-By is committed to
> > > git, their PII becomes permanently and immutably recorded for any reasonable
> > > meaning of the word "forever."
> > 
> > Many (most?) bugzilla.kernel.org components result in e-mail getting
> > sent to vger.kernel.org mailing lists.  So even if they delete the
> > bugzilla account, there e-mail will be immortalized in lore.kernel.org
> > and their associated git repositories.
> 
> I wouldn't say that most -- to my knowledge, it's only about 5-6 
> components of the 50+. It's hard to tell how much that is by volume, 
> though, because certainly not all components see much activity.
> 
> We *can* excise things on lore.kernel.org. It's a massive pain, since 
> message archive is a git repository itself, so will need to be rebased, 
> reindexed and remirrored -- but it *is* possible.

It's likely not a worthwhile pain to self-inflict because
lore.kernel.org is not the only public vger mailing list archive.

https://lkml.org/
https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel

etc...