Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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
>



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Jon Smirl
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