Anonymous contributions

[Eike Hein]

I'm a bit conflicted about this. Random drive-by patches are one thing, 
but when I engage with new contributors, my hope is they'll be coming 
back and walk a path to a dev account and a long-term commitment to the 
KDE developer community.

To me, the KDE developer community is one built on trust relationships. 
We hand out write access based on peer-review, and we're generally 
comfortable that the person committing to our repositories is supposed 
to be doing so, because they're on board with the etiquette.

Pseudonyms don't jive with that for me. Someone not entrusting me with 
their real name feels regressive vs. our current community standards. 
It's a bit uncomfortable.

I know there's a lot of counters to this (some people value their 
self-elected nicknames more than their given names; some people have 
legitimate reasons, e.g. safety, to want to stay anonymous, and so on). 
It's not a trivial matter, and I'm not necessarily taking a stand.


Cheers,
Eike