On 03.03.2011 16:00, Romain d'Alverny wrote: [...] > The points to decide here are: > a) should a contributor provide a public email address, to be used in > changelogs, commits and everywhere her contribution to the project > needs an id or contact id? (for instance changelog, commit, document > authoring)
I'm not sure what you mean by "providing" here. Contributors should have @mageia.org addresses, and this address must be shown in RPM Changelogs and RPM Packager fields (as is done in Mandriva). > b) should a contributor provide a real name for the same goals? or is > a fake name/alias ok, as long as there are people that do know/meet > the person? I'd prefer everyone provide a real or fake name instead of an alias, but I don't feel so strongly about this. > I won't comment on pros and cons below (not exclusive of others), but > those were raised in the discussion before: > > 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 > > The cons (as in "no, one should be free not to") > - public email addresses get spammed I don't consider this a big issue, the email addresses are readable from mailing lists etc. in any case. > - personal preferences to not reveal one's name > - there are situations where anonymity is a requirement or "nice to > have" (from a personal or corporate point of view) > - it will encourage people to contact directly contributors instead > of using other expected channels > > Note that one may use a fake name/identity anyway to stay anonymous > (but unless one already has a network of trust within a group, she > would not have a past public record to help building her new > reputation). > > What is at stake is the accountability for each contributor, hence for > the whole project. What will matter is what one does and how. > > And again, let's have this point discussed in a cool, informative, > constructive and efficient way, please. > > Cheers, > > Romain -- Anssi Hannula
