[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 13:45:37 +0100, Henrik Danielsson wrote:
>We could simply deny the AUR username request it for the same reason,
>or no reason at all. Since some people seem uncomfortable about what
>could be derived from a potential correlation of publicly available
>data, that's most likely the safest way to go.

Even if all users would agree to hand out a username list, why risking
a possible issue for some research, that seems to gain nothing for the
Arch community and as far as I can see even not for human kind? To be
honest, I can't name a real issue, I only could imagine very abstract
issues. I don't understand that research at all. Much likely nothing bad
would happen by handing out a list, but to avoid a "Now, why didn't I
think of that?"-issue the easiest solution seems to reject such
requests in general, at least as long as it's not obviously that the
research is "good" (what ever this means) for the Arch community and/or
human kind or the universe in general.