Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

In addition, the concept is rather silly, as one can just take a pseudonym without any of us knowing:

When I registered I was prompted to verify my identity by means of my university email (as opposed to my gmail account), which would complicate using a pseudonym. This being said, I have no problem with this restriction. In fact, trying to determine the origin of code before agreeing to distribute it sounds like sound procedure. Perhaps a good compromise would be the ability to hide the uploader on the public website (thus preventing data mining)? From a users perspective, the "Uploaded by" field of Hackage packages is somewhat redundant in the presence of "Maintainer" and "Author" etc. /Jonas On 5 April 2010 01:58, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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Some people are paranoid about such things, for example because it would allow people to google-mine for things they'd rather a random HR person not reading by linking names together.

In addition, the concept is rather silly, as one can just take a pseudonym without any of us knowing:

Whats new: Thu Apr 1 13:37:00 UTC 2010  NicolasBourbaki   algebre-1.0

History is ripe with examples of this.

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