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Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/q
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Philip McGrath |
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Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive) |
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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:11:21 -0400 |
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2024, at 11:11 AM, MSavoritias wrote:
> On 3/21/24 17:08, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
>> […]
>> I don't understand how using petnames, uuids or even a re:claimID
>> identity (see below) could solve the problem with "rewriting history" in
>> case a person wishes to change his or her previous _published_ name
>> (petname, uuid...) in an archived content-addressable storage system.
>
> It doesnt solve the problem of rewriting history. It solves the bug of
> having names part of the git history.
>
> see also https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/20960 for Gitlab
> doing the same thing.
>
Unless I’m missing something, the linked Gitlab issue seems to be a proposal by
someone in February 2018 that Gitlab adopt some system of using UUIDs instead
of author information. There was fairly limited discussion, with the last
comment in May 2018. There does not seem to have been a consensus supporting
the proposal, and I’m not seeing any indication that Gitlab plans to implement
the proposal.
Furthermore, the author and committer metadata are not the only places where
people’s names appear in Guix. For example, I know some font packages that
mention the name of the font designer in the package’s description. More
broadly, Guix also refers to package sources by their content hashes: most
sources probably contain some people’s names, and any of these could face the
same problems as names directly included in the Guix Git repository.
I strongly believe in the importance of protecting trans people from
harassment. I don’t know how to solve the tension with long-term bit-for-bit
reproducibility.
Philip
- Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive, (continued)
- Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive, Olivier Dion, 2024/03/17
- Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive, Ludovic Courtès, 2024/03/17
- the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), Giovanni Biscuolo, 2024/03/20
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), MSavoritias, 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), Attila Lendvai, 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), pinoaffe, 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), Giovanni Biscuolo, 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), MSavoritias, 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive),
Philip McGrath <=
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), pinoaffe, 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), Hartmut Goebel, 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), MSavoritias, 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), Ekaitz Zarraga, 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), Felix Lechner, 2024/03/22
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), Efraim Flashner, 2024/03/21
- Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive), pinoaffe, 2024/03/21
Content-Addressed system and history?, Simon Tournier, 2024/03/18
Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive, Simon Tournier, 2024/03/18