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[Martin Pool]

On 25/02/2008, Cyrus Jones <daradib at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I think the big deal with Launchpad Beta Testers team is that
>  Launchpad Beta Testers are some of the closest people to Canonical
>  that are not employed by Canonical. They want to put their own
>  business practices, and in the business world, real names make sense.
>  But I think pseudonyms are something that Canonical and leaders of the
>  team have to accept if they do not want to lose contributors.

(I'm a Canonical employee but this is my personal opinion.)

This team was previously much smaller, I believe, and treated as being
under the kind of non-disclosure where you would normally want people
signing under their real name.  Now the beta is rather more open and
more about opting in for new features, so perhaps it's time to
reassess that policy.

-- 
Martin