On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:05 PM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Filipe Contreras wrote:
It's Felipe. > > In 20 years of experience contributing to open source software, I have > > **never** heard of a single person saying "please don't record my real > > name". > > I have, many times. I don't know how many. How many in the last 10 years? 1? 10? 100? > And also quite a few names on changes are not the actual name of the > person but an alias. There shouldn't be any problem with git saying the author of the patch is an alias. > Also, lots of people don't realize there is a problem until it's too > late. Programmers are hopefully better than the average Facebook user. Which programmers? The programmers submitting the patches, or the programmers receiving the patches? The needs of the few should not outweigh the needs of the many. It doesn't make sense to make 99,999 programmers suffer all the time because 1 might make a mistake once. -- Felipe Contreras -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAMP44s3aSpgX%3DGr1ay%3DCZBpZtQGFo%3D-9KFGXEcngXiL1DwzN_A%40mail.gmail.com.
