[Mageia-dev] Contributors using real name/working email? or not? or maybe?

Fri Mar 4 14:37:34 CET 2011

I am in favour, of "should/would".
+
+> The pros (as in "yes one should"):
+>  - that is the common way used in MDV and other major distributions
+>  - (email or name) it identifies the author of a change to the project/code
+>  - (email) it helps identifying & contacting directly someone in the
+> project (peer review or any ad hoc matter)
+>  - (email & name) it helps building confidence among contributors and
+> from the outside
+>  - (name) it encourages people to adopt a consistent behaviour
+>  - (email & name) it builds one's contributions list for
+> future/outside reference
+Who wants to contribute, should be easily contacted, either by
+mageia community (bugzilla, other develeopers for fixing, suggestions for
+his/her packages,....) or by normal users. Last is not always good
+because personal mails are not always welcome and the risk some
+problems/discussions that remain private goes lost is high.
+I always strongly recomend people who contacts me to go on
+talking following the right ways (mailing list, bugzilla, etc), because
+there I'm not alone (and they as well).
+ 
+Different thing is for occasional contributions, they can decide if they want
+to be added or not, since they're not commiting anything, the maintainers
+can add or not contributors' information as they want.
+> The cons (as in "no, one should be free not to")
+>  - public email addresses get spammed
+Yes, but a mageia alias, could be a partial solution. If one doesn't 
+want to contribute any more, his/her real address is not known.
+
+>  - personal preferences to not reveal one's name
+Again are we talking about occasional contribution? if not i can't figure
+to go on irc and don't know who contacting for some issues...
+
+>  - there are situations where anonymity is a requirement or "nice to
+> have" (from a personal or corporate point of view)
+For corporate, an alias could be accepted (if we're talking about a future
+mageia corporate) like kde-team or similar. But again for fixed contributions
+i can't get it, sorry.
+
+>  - it will encourage people to contact directly contributors instead
+> of using other expected channels
+As said we're talking about Open source community... Open not closed,
+so there's nothing wrong. The hope is there's no crazy criminals that
+wants to terminate anyone :)
+
+In my personal experience i've been contacted a lot of time and answered
+when i could (my real life does not let me a lot of free time), and
+who contacted me has always understood that. Moreover if I could not
+have contacted some authors... well that is another story :)
+ 
+Just my 2€ cents,
+	Angelo
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