[Jenkins-infra] Revisiting access control for anonymized "census data"

Vivek Pandey vivek.pandey at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 00:55:33 UTC 2016


The anonymized data looks pretty well anonymized, so do not see anything in
there that needs any confidentiality as far as ACL is concerned, and I am
fine with the proposed licensing.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:10 PM, R. Tyler Croy <tyler at monkeypox.org> wrote:

> (replies inline)
>
> On Tue, 07 Jun 2016, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
>
> > I meant INFRA-682 for "anonymized data" and not for "monthly data" that's
> > currently in the /census. See
> > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Usage+Statistics for what
> those
> > two terms mean. The former contains much richer data than the latter. Do
> > you still feel the same way with the anonymized data?
>
>
> Well, the title refers to "Write down process to request & grant access to
> census.jenkins.io"
>
> Only census.json.gz data is on census.jenkins.io.
>
> We do not have currently, nor have we ever had the infrastructure for
> serving
> up the raw anonymized access logs, but fundamentally I don't see access
> controls as necessary for that data either. I would rather we did not
> expand
> the scope of what's being discussed here however.
>
> > I agree that at this point access control on the monthly data seems
> largely
> > unneeded.
> >
> > Also, just for the record, one of the motivations for putting it behind
> the
> > access control wall is so that we can know who is looking at the data so
> > that we can encourage them to bring the results to the community.
>
>
> I vaguely recall that, unfortunately I don't think our hopes were ever
> realized
> there :/
>
> I hope/think the databsae licensing that I proposed would help encourage
> more
> open data mining and stats digging.
>
>
> - R. Tyler Croy
>
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