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Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 25, 2017 13:12 UTC (Sat) by geuder (subscriber, #62854)
Parent article: Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Certainly interesting. But why should I deal with someone hiding behind a pseudonym? The kernel doesn't accept patches by pseudonyms either.


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Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 25, 2017 14:24 UTC (Sat) by adirat (subscriber, #86623) [Link]

Do you ever have fun while programming?

Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 27, 2017 8:57 UTC (Mon) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link] (6 responses)

I am not sure if I understand you correctly. Do you ask how do you benefit from the challenge?

If it's not obvious; you (hopefully) get to learn something new. You'll have fun. You end up being more knowledgeable. It might widen choices of what you end up doing for living.

How is the Little Penguin's pseudonym relevant in that context? I find it rather cute.

Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 27, 2017 14:32 UTC (Mon) by geuder (subscriber, #62854) [Link] (5 responses)

> Do you ask how do you benefit from the challenge?

No.

When doing the challenge I obviously interact with someone. I would just feel more comfortable if the someone mentioned his (unlikely to be her...) real name.

> How is the Little Penguin's pseudonym relevant in that context? I find it rather cute.

I don't care what kind of nickname they like to use, cute or not. Fine with me as long as the real identity weren't hidden.

Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 27, 2017 14:56 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (4 responses)

How do I know "geuder" is not a pseudonym? Doesn't sound like a real name to me :-)

Oh - and "Wol" sounds like a pseudonym, but it's actually an (unusual) shortened form of my real name :-) (Which is why I use it.)

Cheers,
Wol

Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 27, 2017 18:41 UTC (Mon) by geuder (subscriber, #62854) [Link] (3 responses)

> How do I know "geuder" is not a pseudonym?

You don't. If you were a subscriber you could filter me, if you didn't want to read comments from some usernames, e. g. those you find suspicious. (At least I understood so, have never used any filtering on lwn.)

> Doesn't sound like a real name to me :-)

That's your problem:) That's the way it is spelled in my passport, at least if comparing case-insensitively.

(Actually had I known that the name is displayed in discussion forums when registering, I might have chosen something else: In forums that require a full name I use it. Otherwise I use a nick.)

Anyway, what I was referring to:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...

The rule might be there for legal reasons. But in the end no trusted chain of PGP signatures is required, so mostly it's a question of personal integrity whether people really use their real names. I'd say at least 95% of the open source world works like this.

It's just a matter of style and trust. In the common sense, not the cryptographic one of course.

In the end, what I would have expected from my post is (maybe) a good argument, why a presumably well known kernel hacker would do this effort without telling his name. None has come up so far as far as I can see, so we should stop posting less and less informative follow-ups. At least I'll try to do so unless a novel viewpoint comes up.

Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 27, 2017 20:29 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

Given the number of applicants, it is more likely to be an alias for a large group of people.
Would you be more comfortable if the email was signed 'The Eudyptula challenge team' ?

Beside, it is customary to withhold the names of the referees of scientific papers. Maybe similar rationale apply.

Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 28, 2017 16:20 UTC (Tue) by adirat (subscriber, #86623) [Link]

Here's a novel idea: the issues you have are solved by medicine, not argumentation.

Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 29, 2017 14:45 UTC (Wed) by snits (guest, #37976) [Link]

Maybe they didn't want their email and other means of communication flooded with questions and requests?

Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 27, 2017 16:09 UTC (Mon) by Kamiccolo (subscriber, #95159) [Link]

Are You sure it's a pseudonym? ;)

Eudyptula Challenge Status report

Posted Mar 30, 2017 11:56 UTC (Thu) by azz (subscriber, #371) [Link] (2 responses)

> The kernel doesn't accept patches by pseudonyms either.

Yes, it does (in practice):

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...

Spelvin

Posted Mar 30, 2017 12:49 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

So I asked around a bit about this particular case a while back. The real identity of this particular developer is known to the people who take their patches. So it's a pseudonym, but a special-case pseudonym that is not 100% opaque.

Spelvin

Posted Mar 30, 2017 14:32 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Out of curiosity, is anyone able to disclose why said developer uses the George Spelvin pseudonym? If the reasons are too personal (or too revealing of Mr Spelvin's hidden identity), I understand, but my curiosity is getting the better of me here.


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