Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Gentoo Council nominees: GLEP 76

[desultory]

On 06/28/19 08:09, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 7:49 AM Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote:
>>
>> I never stated that the trustees will know better, I stated that
>> their knowledge of what we assume to be real names will be
>> sufficient and there is no need for all developers to know them.
>> This is because the trustees are responsible for legal issues of
>> Gentoo.
>>
>> With such approach we lose nothing, but gain something valuable: we
>> may and will accept more people and more contributions.
>
> IMO you lose a professional atmosphere.  I think there is a difference
> in atmosphere when you have Andrew and Rich and Michał having a
> discussion, versus codebozo and leetcoder and trollmaster.  (Just
> making up random handles - no correspondence implied.)
>
What you describe as, in effect, a dehumamizing interface, others
perceive as a way to keep minimize their social exposure. Where you find
some ill-defined negative, others find a distinct positive. Is Gentoo
really in a position where it can turn away demonstrably skilled
contributors based solely on their wanting to minimize personal exposure?

> I mean, which would you prefer to have on your linkedin network?
>
Maybe, just maybe, people who have no interest in publishing their
involvement with a project have no interest in publishing their
involvement with a project's members. Which leads me to the radical leap
of logic that they probably wouldn't be making such associations known
on a social networking site, and if they would at some point want to do
so, they would likely make their involvement itself public.

> Many FOSS projects require the use of real names, including Linux.
>
"Other people do it" is not exactly a great logical argument, given that
precisely the same argument could be used to justify doing literally
anything that anyone else has done.