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

[Rich Freeman]

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.)

I mean, which would you prefer to have on your linkedin network?

Many FOSS projects require the use of real names, including Linux.

-- 
Rich