Hi,
I tried to re-license parts of KTextEditor in the past.
Real names help close to nothing if the mail addresses are no longer
valid or the people don't respond, even if valid.
You just can't track them, unfortunately there are more "Max Schmidt"s
around on the world then lets say "Christoph Cullmann"s.
Yes, Albert Astals Cid is much easier to track than randomguy, i'm
99.99% positive there's only one Albert Astals Cid in the world,
there's millions of randomguys, so please don't say "you just can't
track them" because it's obviously not true, sure for more common
names it's still not trivial, but it is much easier if you have
someone's name than if you don't.
I must confess, even with your "unique" name, I wasn't able to get your
postal address
nor a phone number with just a bit of "searching". (I found only ancient
student stuff)
But that might be my inability to use search engines for that task.
Meaning: if your mail addresses I know no longer work, I will be lost
for any follow up,
or? I assume, as you are highly active and well integrated I can ask
some of your friends
online and will find you, but that won't work with any non-highly
connected contributor.
But you are right, a name can help, but I highly doubt without "large"
resource spending
just a name without any more data like at least your last real address
etc. will do not help
that much if you need to "stalk" people afterwards for legal paper work.
Greetings
Christoph
