On Mon, Jan 16, 2006, Jim Fulton wrote:
>
> In general though, for adults, truthfulness and non-anonymity *do*
> matter. At least they matter to me, a *lot*. I don't think members
> of the PSF should be allowed to hide their identity and certainly, it
> should not be acceptable to contribute to P
[Jim Fulton]
> certainly, it should not be acceptable to contribute to Python
> under a false name.
What do you mean "contribute to Python"? Do you mean become one of
the developers listed on sourceforge? Contribute any patches, even
simple documentation ones? Review, comment and test pat
Jim Fulton wrote:
> In general though, for adults, truthfulness and non-anonymity *do*
> matter. At least they matter to me, a *lot*. I don't think members
> of the PSF should be allowed to hide their identity and certainly,
> it should not be acceptable to contribute to Python under a false name
Guido van Rossum wrote:
[...]
>
> I think that's unnecessary, and not any more effective than what we
> already do -- ask for a signed contributor form. Someone who signs
> that form "Tim Peters" won't be stopped by a clause asking them to use
> their real name, *really*.
>
Sorry. My previous mes
On 1/16/06, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> > In general though, for adults, truthfulness and non-anonymity *do*
> > matter. At least they matter to me, a *lot*. I don't think members
> > of the PSF should be allowed to hide their identity and certainly,
> > it shoul
Jim Fulton wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote:
>
>>[Georg Brandl -- or so he claimed on January 8]
>>
>>
>>>today, when two Python developers here had approached me about the PSF, I
>>>realized that it is time to correct a mistake which I had made over three
>>>years
>>>ago, when I discovered Linux, free
