On Jan 21, 2008 4:11 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 23:24 -0500, Russell Harrison wrote: > > I'm a strong believer in getting talented students involved and > > excited as soon as possible. In order to do that we do have the > > obligation to protect their identity when requested. > > You're again confusing the issue of age with the issue of anonymity. The > fact that his parents are paranoid muppets and are _imposing_ the > anonymity on him, and that he chooses to accept that, is not our > business. Our business is that he's coming to us asking if he can be a > contributor while remaining anonymous -- and we seem mostly to be saying > 'no'. Of course if he had just signed his name as David Woodjouse III, we would have been none the wiser. Does the Fedora/Red Hat organization do any background checks to make sure the person who has signed the contract etc really exists? So in some ways, we reward dishonesty and punish honesty. I am not sure there is a solution to this that isnt worse than the present. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
