[Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #11750: The Windows API functions scattered in the _subprocess and (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Apr 19 18:58:59 CEST 2012

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

In all those cases I think there should be some core contributors who know the real identity of the contributor. These must also know the reason for the anonymity and agree that it's important to maintain it. It must also be known to the community at large that the contributor is using a pseudonym. If the contributor is not comfortable revealing their identity to any core contributors, I don't think there is enough of a trust relationship to build on for a successful career as a contributor to Python.

I do think that python-dev should be clear that by "real" identity you mean "legal" identity. There are plenty of cases where the name a person is known by in more "real" situations is not in fact their legal name.  There are also cases where legal names are different in different jurisdictions; especially people with CJK names may have different orthographies of the "same" name in different jurisdictions or even completely different names in different places, if they have immigrated to a different country. So there should be a legal name on file somewhere for copyright provenance purposes, but this should not need to be the same name that is present in commit logs, as long as there's a mapping recorded that can be made available to any interested lawyer. (Hopefully this is not a practical issue, but this is one of my pet peeves - for obvious reasons.)

Heh. I was hoping to avoid too much legal wrangling. Note that we don't require legal proof of identity; that would be an undue burden and more than I would personally put up with as a contributor. The primary concept here is trust, and identity can be seen as an approximation of that at best.

-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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