Subject: Re: Pseudonymous commits

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:57:22 -0700 (PDT)

Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Mike.lifeguard wrote:
> 
> > On 10-03-25 01:39 AM, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > > How do you know whether said contributor
> > > isn't a Chinese intelligence agent trying to insert a backdoor into
> > > your program
> > 
> > Because they are only contributing translations.
> 
> Just take over authorship of the patch yourself then.
> 
> Or pick a generic email address such as the translator's mailing list 
> email address or the like.

In the case of translations one cal use generic "language team"
mailing list, i.e. <[email-masked]> (where LL is ISO code of language,
e.g. [email-masked]' for translations to German, etc.).

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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