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The Open Source Report Card
http://osrc.dfm.io
MIT License
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Nice effort, but careers are serious business. #58

Closed nubis closed 2 years ago

nubis commented 10 years ago

It was fun to see what it generated for my profile, but I wouldn't want anyone seeing it. Thanks for adding the option of opting out.

sebdeckers commented 10 years ago

This information is already public, and the analysis tool is open source. Obscurity != security. All it takes is for someone (eg. an HR company) to set up the same app without the opt-out.

nubis commented 10 years ago

I'm well aware of that, and that's why I'm particularly thanking dfm (or whoever) for allowing people to opt-out in the version of the tool that is currently running. I doubt an HR firm would just start using this open-source scorecard as is, but that would be their problem. As I see this as an honest effort to bring more legitimate sources of information to decision makers, I would even go as far as to suggest making the opt-out database public as well, that would shed some light about the perceived usefulness of the tool itself. cheers.

Senjai commented 10 years ago

Just gonna leave this here: https://github.com/dfm/osrc/issues/56#issuecomment-28952661