On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 06:16:03PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 21:51 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > > Identification does, maybe, but identification of abilities, not > > identification of name. > > Except we've mostly been talking about GPG keys... which we use for > pretty much two things... to determine that the person sending the email > is in fact the person we think they are, and to sign releases/packages > (eventually) to determine that the package was indeed added to the tree > by the person it says it was. > > > > The point is, when you're an organization and you take donations and > > > volunteer time as part of the service you provide, you owe it to the > > > community you service to verify the quality of the products you provide - > > > part of that comes from the identity of those who provide them. > > > > But none of that comes from the arbitrary string (name) associated with > > them. > > I love this philosophical horse crap as much as the next, but it is > really old now. > > If you want your key signed, then show your ID. If you don't, then > don't. It really is that simple. >
On a related note: if you don't want people to know anything about the person behind the nickname, you're perfectly welcome to contribute via e-mail and Bugzie without needing to disclose much of anything. -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
