Roberto Polli writes ("Re: [gdpr-discuss] Git and the Right for Rectification"):
About personal data in git:
2018-05-24 19:54 GMT+02:00 Ian Jackson ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk:
gdpr@sheogorath.shivering-isles.com writes ("Re: [gdpr-discuss] Git and the Right for Rectification"):
If someone wants to correct their mail address, just add a .mailmap file. For details check: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-check-mailmap
The actual gitlab clauses include:
(For GitLab Contributors Only) ... I [...] agree that my name and email address will become embedded and part of the code, which may be publicly available. I understand the removal of this information would be impermissibly destructive [..] I hereby waive any right to request any erasure, removal, or rectification of this information under any applicable privacy or other law [..].
Could those clauses suffice?
I'm not a laywer, but maybe.
I do think that we should improve mailmap along the lines I suggested in my previous message.
Legally: "processing" someone's deadname, by putting it in plain view in the HEAD's mailmap file, is not *necessary* for the integrity of the repository. Obfuscating it is easy. So I don't think it is justified, ethically or legally.
Ian.