Anonymous contributions

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

>> I tried to re-license parts of KTextEditor in the past.
>> Real names help close to nothing if the mail addresses are no longer
>> valid or the people don't respond, even if valid.
>> You just can't track them, unfortunately there are more "Max Schmidt"s
>> around on the world then lets say "Christoph Cullmann"s.
> 
> Yes, Albert Astals Cid is much easier to track than randomguy, i'm
> 99.99% positive there's only one Albert Astals Cid in the world,
> there's millions of randomguys, so please don't say "you just can't
> track them" because it's obviously not true, sure for more common
> names it's still not trivial, but it is much easier if you have
> someone's name than if you don't.

I must confess, even with your "unique" name, I wasn't able to get your 
postal address
nor a phone number with just a bit of "searching". (I found only ancient 
student stuff)
But that might be my inability to use search engines for that task.

Meaning: if your mail addresses I know no longer work, I will be lost 
for any follow up,
or? I assume, as you are highly active and well integrated I can ask 
some of your friends
online and will find you, but that won't work with any non-highly 
connected contributor.

But you are right, a name can help, but I highly doubt without "large" 
resource spending
just a name without any more data like at least your last real address 
etc. will do not help
that much if you need to "stalk" people afterwards for legal paper work.

Greetings
Christoph