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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Contributors using real name/working email? or not? or maybe?</H1>
<B>andre999</B>
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<I>Thu Mar 3 17:13:23 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
><i>
</I>><i> Hi there,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> in the past few days/hours, on sysadmin list has a discussion arisen
</I>><i> about publishing packager email into commit/change log; you can check
</I>><i> the whole thread, here are three starting points of it:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> * <A HREF="https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002946.html">https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002946.html</A>
</I>><i> * <A HREF="https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002952.html">https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002952.html</A>
</I>><i> * <A HREF="https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002955.html">https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002955.html</A>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> And you would perhaps like to read the whole thread; not everyone
</I>><i> agrees there. The discussion slipped to whether:
</I>><i> * packagers/contributors [sh|w]ould use& publish their real name (as
</I>><i> registered in identity),
</I>><i> * packagers/contributors [sh|w]ould publish their contact email (same),
</I>><i> * in their contributions to the project (here, in the changelog),
</I>><i> * if it should be strictly enforced or not, and why.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> for practical or personal reasons. It's a general, pretty key matter,
</I>><i> it's been rightly suggested to raise the point here, so here it is.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> We can't enforce anything unless we decide on this first and this
</I>><i> thread is here to gather views. What we (Council) will decide later on
</I>><i> about this depends on the outcomes of the discussion (and if we ever
</I>><i> decide or not btw). It will be part of the project's privacy policy.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> And please try to keep this discussion to the point, focused and
</I>><i> civilized; state your views, don't infer on others' ones, stay cool.
</I>><i> Or your point will become shallow and the discussion will be wasted.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The points to decide here are:
</I>><i> a) should a contributor provide a public email address, to be used in
</I>><i> changelogs, commits and everywhere her contribution to the project
</I>><i> needs an id or contact id? (for instance changelog, commit, document
</I>><i> authoring)
</I>><i> b) should a contributor provide a real name for the same goals? or is
</I>><i> a fake name/alias ok, as long as there are people that do know/meet
</I>><i> the person?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I won't comment on pros and cons below (not exclusive of others), but
</I>><i> those were raised in the discussion before:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The pros (as in "yes one should"):
</I>><i> - that is the common way used in MDV and other major distributions
</I>><i> - (email or name) it identifies the author of a change to the project/code
</I>><i> - (email) it helps identifying& contacting directly someone in the
</I>><i> project (peer review or any ad hoc matter)
</I>><i> - (email& name) it helps building confidence among contributors and
</I>><i> from the outside
</I>><i> - (name) it encourages people to adopt a consistent behaviour
</I>><i> - (email& name) it builds one's contributions list for
</I>><i> future/outside reference
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The cons (as in "no, one should be free not to")
</I>><i> - public email addresses get spammed
</I>><i> - personal preferences to not reveal one's name
</I>><i> - there are situations where anonymity is a requirement or "nice to
</I>><i> have" (from a personal or corporate point of view)
</I>><i> - it will encourage people to contact directly contributors instead
</I>><i> of using other expected channels
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Note that one may use a fake name/identity anyway to stay anonymous
</I>><i> (but unless one already has a network of trust within a group, she
</I>><i> would not have a past public record to help building her new
</I>><i> reputation).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> What is at stake is the accountability for each contributor, hence for
</I>><i> the whole project. What will matter is what one does and how.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> And again, let's have this point discussed in a cool, informative,
</I>><i> constructive and efficient way, please.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Cheers,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Romain
</I>
Personnally I like <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">pseudo at mageia.org</A>, with real name and direct adresse
optional.
1) anyone who wants to can give a phony name anyway.
2) @mageia.org lessens the personal spam problem, and looks more
official as well. It will also give Mageia a higher profile, which is a
non-negligable side effect.
3) a lot of contributors like myself aren't in it for the publicity.
As well, they could have compelling reasons to remain anonymous.
(Thus not giving their real email, for example.)
my 2 cents :)
--
André
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