On Mon, Jan 16, 2006, Jim Fulton wrote: > > In general though, for adults, truthfulness and non-anonymity *do* > matter. At least they matter to me, a *lot*. I don't think members > of the PSF should be allowed to hide their identity and certainly, it > should not be acceptable to contribute to Python under a false name.
And to me it's important for both political and personal reasons that people be accepted -- nay, encouraged -- to use pseudonyms as they please (or even choose to be anonymous). I won't write a long screed on this subject because it's off-topic here, but I will oppose any attempt to limit access to the Python community from people who do not use their legal names. (See Alex's excellent post for more detail.) One point where I do agree with you: I have little taste for morphing aliases that refer to a single person. If someone chooses to be declaratively anonymous, that's fine; if someone chooses to use a stable pseudonym (or a "real name" that happens to not be zir legal name), that's fine, too. But constantly changing identity does strike me as abusing community. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
