From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:57:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Pseudonymous commits
Message-ID: <m34ok4j6qi.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003251459540.694@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Mike.lifeguard wrote:
> 
> > On 10-03-25 01:39 AM, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > > How do you know whether said contributor
> > > isn't a Chinese intelligence agent trying to insert a backdoor into
> > > your program
> > 
> > Because they are only contributing translations.
> 
> Just take over authorship of the patch yourself then.
> 
> Or pick a generic email address such as the translator's mailing list 
> email address or the like.

In the case of translations one cal use generic "language team"
mailing list, i.e. <LL@li.org> (where LL is ISO code of language,
e.g. 'de@li.org' for translations to German, etc.).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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