5 Apr
2010
5 Apr
'10
9:33 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:28 PM, David House
Hi,
An issue came up on #haskell recently with Hackage accounts requiring real names. The person in question (who didn't send this email as he's wishing to remain anonymous) applied for a Hackage account and was turned down, as he refused to offer his real name for the username.
Those of us in the conversation thought this a bit of an odd policy, and were wondering where this came from. It also emerged that a couple of other people had been held back from getting Hackage accounts because of this reason.
It must've been put in place in the past year or two; I've never made any bones about using a pseudonym, and I had no trouble getting a Hackage account back when it was starting up. -- gwern