<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23006" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23005" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23004" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23007" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23008" face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 12:24 AM, Chris McCormick <chris@mccormick.cx> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23020" class="y_msg_container">On 14/05/16 02:57, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-dev wrote:<br clear="none">>> > On Thursday, May 5, 2016 12:14 AM, Chris McCormick<br clear="none">>> > <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23135" shape="rect" href="https://github.com/chr15m/gitnonymous" target="_blank">https://github.com/chr15m/gitnonymous</a><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> I thought about this a bit, and I've come to the conclusion that--<br clear="none">>> currently--<br clear="none">>> there is never a situation where I'd accept code submitted anonymously.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> So like myself you enjoy the privilege of writing and releasing whatever <br clear="none">> software you like without that activity putting you or your loved ones <br clear="none">> in a dangerous personal situation.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Presumably you're aware that there are people who don't enjoy our privilege.<br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23077"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23083">Right.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23082"><br></div>>> In fact it's way safer from the perspective of the pseudon or anon<br clear="none">>> to feed an idea for a bugfix or feature out-of-band to an extant<br clear="none">>> developer.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I don't think I'd presume to dictate to a software developer in a <br clear="none">> difficult and dangerous personal situation what kinds of safety measures <br clear="none">> they should take based on my personal ideology. Generally people in such <br clear="none">> situations are keenly aware of what is a dangerous and safe course of <br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23244">> action and I'd probably defer to their judgement.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23812"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23968">On a lower level that that, we can't presume anything about where the code <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23969" dir="ltr">came from. It's code attached to an id, that's it.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23974"><br></div>> Your requirement above sounds onerous to the point it would become <br clear="none">> prohibitive to contribute.<br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_24071"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_24072">Well, I'm thinking in terms of the project I'm working on. I'm not aware of <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_24389" dir="ltr">any anon code in the Pd repo.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_24147"><br></div>>> It's also important from the public developer's perspective, as they<br clear="none">>> have to explicitly take responsibility for the bugfix/feature, and the<br clear="none">>> risks associated with that.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Fair enough, that's your prerogative on your projects.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> For me personally the quality and truth of a work is more important than <br clear="none">> the identity of the person who created it.<br clear="none"><br><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_24835" shape="rect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority</a><div class="yqt4573589483" id="yqtfd94712"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_26129"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_26106">I think of it more like "the right to blame someone else when shit breaks". <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_27961">Long term stable identities make it likely "that someone" will fix what's <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_28042">broken.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_28214" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_28255" dir="ltr">While it's not impossible to delegate responsibility among <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_28148" dir="ltr">pseudons, it's a big, brittle pain in the ass. One that inescapably requires <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_28103" dir="ltr">more communication and community building, which inescapably brings <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_28296" dir="ltr">more risk to the pseudons.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_28297" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_28298" dir="ltr">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_28299" dir="ltr"><br></div>Cheers,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Chris.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465267209030_23514" shape="rect" href="http://mccormick.cx/" target="_blank">http://mccormick.cx/</a><div class="yqt4573589483" id="yqtfd41773"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>