> > My 2 cents, which take with a grain of salt given that I'm an "every once in a while" contributor...
This seems wrong to me from a point of keeping up the integrity of the > project. I understand the sentiment of project professionalism, but also keep in mind that not every contributor is a professional. That definitely doesn't devalue their contribution and is part of what makes a community driven open source project. Is it just me or do others agree we should at least require a proper > name on the commits (as fake as that may be also)? Seems like a low bar to > me. I would caution against having such a policy that may inadvertently send the wrong message of "We only want 'real' software developers so if that's not you then your contribution isn't really welcome." I don't believe that's your intent here and it might seem like a stretch but I think a policy could come across that way or at least have that sentiment if not worded carefully. I'm not a legal expert but it doesn't seem ideal to be amassing commits with these type of author tags from that point of view either. I personally think it's okay to have "anonymous" contributions with the only real issue being copyright assignment, which (not a lawyer here but...) I think could be reasonably addressed through a policy of "anonymous contributors agree to assign copyright of contributed code to the project itself" or something of the sort. That's really a topic for it's own discussion though. - Chuck
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