[Pkg-anonymity-tools] Propose merger as pkg-privacy-tools

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Ximin Luo wrote (04 Oct 2014 11:47:45 GMT) :
> I think it would be good to merge both groups into one. We already share pretty much
> the same members, and there is a lot of overlap in terms of topic, too.

I have no strong opinion on this topic.

My main concern with the merge (other than I'm not thrilled at the
idea of dealing with the transition) is that the resulting team would
have a much broader scope (e.g. I would happily put nautilus-wipe and
libgsecuredelete under its umbrella, and I guess many more would fit
into something as vague as "privacy", e.g. seahorse-nautilus -- once
you start including anything crypto-related to the definition, how big
our set of packages can grow?). I'm not sure our (very young!) team
dynamics are strong enough to cope with that. Of course, this concern
can be mitigated by some self-applied rate-limiting on adding new
packages, or some periodic sanity check of our packages, BTS
and workload.

My main reasons to welcome this change are:

 * it could provide a useful single privacy-related point of contact
   for the project at large, e.g. when someone is wondering about the
   privacy implications of a new feature in a package they maintain;
   or the tasksel maintainers wondering what we would like to see
   installed by default;

 * as you noted, there's a strong overlap between the two existing
   teams, and I suspect that would be the case for potential new
   members as well; I think that for such people, joining a single
   team is easier than joining two (even if they basically share the
   same packaging policy and internal processes).

> In the future, we could also bring monkeysphere and/or gnupg into this as well.

Note that there's already https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/GnuPG.

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri