= phenomenon =
fas is returning the ircnick even if privacy is set = reason =
when this was last refactored, the ircnick field was set to not be filtered out of private data. This hotfix fixes this.
Hotfix is fasmodel.py. Applied to fas servers via puppet and pushed to the upstream repo.
I'm a bit puzzled here: why would you put your IRC nick on record if you don't want other people to see it? If you can't remember it by yourself, just start your IRC client to find out :-).
It's not as if this were one of the pieces of information the project needs to contact a person (otherwise we'd make it mandatory to be recorded), so the only reason I see behind this field is "tell others how to recognize me on IRC". Am I missing something?
I'd be okay with changing this back but ircnick is listed in the privacy policy as one of the things that obey the privacy flag:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraProject:Privacy_policy#Publicly_Available_Personal_Information
So that document would need to be changed first.
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