On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:41:55PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > I would like to clarify this in the Development.lyx manual. Does anyone > > disagree with the following policy? > > > > If a contributor of a patch would like to remain anonymous, our > > policy is that they can reveal their identity privately to a LyX > > developer. The LyX developers will make their best effort to never > > use the real name of the contributor in public correspondence. > > By the the "best effort" policy we mean best effort on our part to know real > identity of the contributor, not how we treat his name, cf > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_diligence > https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg195648.html > > That's the legal part. Last time when we talked about this, the major > issue was rather social aspect -- that we want to know who we are > collaborating with.
OK I guess I should avoid the phrase "best effort" then. I just wanted to signal that although we would do our best to not use their real name, it is understandable if sometime a mistake was made. > > Does anyone disagree with this policy? Should they send their email to > > one/two LyX developers or to develop...@lyx.org? > > I think you are too bureaucratic by trying to declare all this stuff, anyway > couple of long-term core devs are enough :) I've seen situations where we say different things on the same topic. That is why I think it is nice to have a proper discussion, get our opinions out in the open, and figure out our position so we don't have to keep coming back to it. Putting it in the Development.lyx doesn't mean we won't change it. But it gives us a starting point that we can tweak if needed. But I'm not sensing there is much support for having a rule on this, so I'm going to hold off. Thanks to all for the discussion, Scott
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