[Python-Dev] Tracker anonymity

["Martin v. Löwis"]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Paul> In the old days, it was possible to post stuff to Python's
>     Paul> sourceforge pages without logging in.  That was turned off for
>     Paul> various reasons that weren't bogus, but that didn't strike me as
>     Paul> overwhelmingly compelling.  Maybe that could be revisited, at
>     Paul> least for the category of documentation bugs and patches.
> 
> Any thoughts about maybe relaxing the login restriction?

I can't understand why he could expect that patch submissions could be
anonymous. We are moving towards more bureaucracy here, not less: we
should really require that the contributor form is filled out for
submissions (both code and documentation): on documentation, there is
also copyright, and formally, the contributor needs to declare under
what license we can use the text that he wrote.

Now, there is always the issue with "trivial" modifications (like
typos); we haven't been able to clarify yet what the bar for "this
has copyright" really is, that's why I haven't been pushing for
executing a "require forms signed" policy, yet.

For bug reports, this issue does not exist - but the other issues
(of being able to get feedback) do, of course.

Regards,
Martin