[plt-scheme] planet: help submitting bugs & a question

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> Drscheme could also log these contract violations, anonymize them[*]
>> and periodically submit them as tickets to trac by itself. Is that
>> something that people would appreciate? Or would such an automatic
>> submission be a privacy problem (or some other kind of problem)?
>
> That sounds pretty neat.
>
> Rather than worrying about anonymizing data, you could allow PLaneT
> packages to include a public key provided by the author. Encrypt the
> whole enchilada that gets sent to trac. If the package maintainer
> wants to make the details public, he can decrypt it and append it to
> trac message. That way there are two options: insecure and secure,
> make it the maintainers choice and default to insecure.

Well, the user of the package is the one who could be divulging
information, not the package author.

Robby