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

On Apr 4, 2010, at 22:57 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" writes:

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(Several people I know who do this are fairly active in the bi, poly, and/or BSDM communities and are justifiably worried that HR would take a dim view of it being possibly associated with their company.)

I can understand wishing to be anonymous in these kinds of situations, but in terms of submitting open source software? Unless their employer is worried about them releasing proprietary software on Hackage, I don't see the potential for embarrasment there.

It's more about wanting to keep their non-work-related stuff under a *common* ID, but not one that can be tied back to their work persona. A sort of rigorously-policed double life. There are people who do this, and if they ever are able to release something work-related they'll ask for a separate account for that. (Be it noted that I don't work that way; anyone who wants to search for me in Usenet archives can determine that pretty quickly. :/ But I can understand the impulse.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH