[Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

[Jonas Almström Duregård]

> 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
<jesper.louis.andersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
> <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> --
> J.
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