From: Jon Smirl Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:37:58 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: <9e4733911003181237i56a00a78k31fac2c1afe5a674@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote: >> >> I happen to think that the concept of privacy and working on an open >> source project are fairly incompatible. But apparently their are >> people who think otherwise.  The use would be to reconstruct that >> mailmap I made, but with the email addresses replaced with SHA1 hashes >> of the email. No human would use the SHA1s, they're just there to >> obscure the emails. > > I really see that as a bad thing, not a good thing. It's like enabling > some crazy shit and making it official. > > If you don't want to reveal your real name, use a fake address. Just don't > expect anybody to want to work with you. Go ahead and commit that .mailmap I made. It really cleans up the statistics by fixing 500 errors is people's names. Just don't point the ensuing flame war at me, your hide is tougher. > The LAST thing we want is built-in git support for doing f*cking stupid > things.  You can do stupid things with it on your own without us helping > and encouraging you. > >                Linus > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com