Fedora account restrictions

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 18:06 +0000, ffm wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2008 5:44 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
>         
>         You seem relatively sensible and coherent -- I'm guessing that
>         it's not actually _you_ who would prefer your name to be
>         hidden?
> 
> Correct. Sadly, it isn't my decision. I would have no problem with
> giving out my name, but I am otherwise barred. 

Well, whether we let you contribute to Fedora or not isn't my decision
-- but if it were, I would reluctantly say 'no'. I sympathise with your
position, but we need to have some accountability for contributions, and
I think that allowing anonymous contributors is a very bad precedent to
set.

I don't much like the idea of letting some company, even my esteemed
employer, keep contributors' identities in 'escrow'. Fedora should be an
independent project, and I have a distinct feeling that the conspiracy
nuts would go wild with such an arrangement.

I'm sorry to be unhelpful, especially as I'd really welcome your
contributions to OLPC.

The best I can do is to wish you good luck with the overly paranoid
people you have to deal with. Help them to keep taking the tablets, and
maybe they'll relent some time before you come of age. You really ought
to be permitted to give your name, rank and serial number, if nothing
else  :)

Others may disagree with me and allow you to contribute, of course -- s
I said, it's not my decision. Or maybe you can find a package-monkey to
volunteer to do the Fedora commits/builds/etc. for you, while you do the
real work of maintaining the package?

-- 
dwmw2