Doubt concerning releasing code anonymously

[Chris Travers]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <paivakil at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Chris Travers said on Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:30:44AM -0800,:
>
>  > The major reason not to do this however is verifiability.  If you
>  > don't attach your own name to the code, it may be harder for some
>  > folks to verify that you really did a) write the code and b) license
>  > under the described terms.  I don't really see a reason to release
>  > code anonymously though occasionally some of the projects I have
>  > worked on have accepted contributions from long-standing pseudonymous
>  > community members.  This is fairly rare though.
>
> How many here will
>
> (1) sign a pseudonymous GPG key?
>
> (2) Trust a guy who signs a pseudonymous GPG key?
>
> How many here will donwload and use a software which is not signed by
> a GPG key?
>
LedgerSMB is distributed with a separate GPG detatched signature.  The
key is held by the steering committee.

We find approx, 10x more downloads for the main package than for the signature.

So the 90% probably wouldn't even check the key if it was available.
So maybe 99%?

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers