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

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote:

quoted

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
jonsmirl@gmail.com