On 06/27/2017 08:36 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:41:55PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Scott Kostyshak wrote: >>> I would like to clarify this in the Development.lyx manual. Does anyone >>> disagree with the following policy? >>> >>> If a contributor of a patch would like to remain anonymous, our >>> policy is that they can reveal their identity privately to a LyX >>> developer. The LyX developers will make their best effort to never >>> use the real name of the contributor in public correspondence. >> By the the "best effort" policy we mean best effort on our part to know real >> identity of the contributor, not how we treat his name, cf >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_diligence >> https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg195648.html >> >> That's the legal part. Last time when we talked about this, the major >> issue was rather social aspect -- that we want to know who we are >> collaborating with. > OK I guess I should avoid the phrase "best effort" then. I just wanted > to signal that although we would do our best to not use their real name, > it is understandable if sometime a mistake was made. > >>> Does anyone disagree with this policy? Should they send their email to >>> one/two LyX developers or to develop...@lyx.org? >> I think you are too bureaucratic by trying to declare all this stuff, anyway >> couple of long-term core devs are enough :) > I've seen situations where we say different things on the same topic. > That is why I think it is nice to have a proper discussion, get our > opinions out in the open, and figure out our position so we don't have > to keep coming back to it. Putting it in the Development.lyx doesn't > mean we won't change it. But it gives us a starting point that we can > tweak if needed.
It's come up more than once, so I think it's worth writing down what we've decided. Obviously, we can revisit the issue any time we like. But we won't have to re-discuss it every time. Richard
