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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Anonymous contributions
From:       Nate Graham <nate () kde ! org>
Date:       2019-04-11 17:24:15
Message-ID: 16a0d6db6cb.c55e2d2160435.5443785081875883720 () kde ! org
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Hello everyone,

I've seen the subject of anonymous contributions come up more and more lately as we \
have a few contributors who are not comfortable providing their real full name. This \
convention seems rather at odds with the Privacy goal that the KDE community has \
adopted, and I can think of a few reasons why it could be reasonable for an \
                open-source contributor to not want to use their real name:
- Having been stalked online
- Being a protestor or political dissident who might be targeted by their government
- Career protection due to negative employer attitudes about open-source software

Being somewhat new here, let me ask the question: what's the historical reason behind \
why we ask contributors to provide their full names? And do we think it's still \
necessary going forward, or are there alternative means we can employ to arrive at \
the same ends?


Nate


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