Comment by brabel

Everyone working on important open source code should have a real identity associated with them. The fact that "Jia Tan" was able to become a maintainer without anyone ever trying to figure out their real identity shows a huge weakness in our trust model in OSS (everyone real would have something like a Linked In page, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or better, their own website with stuff that could be used to ensure they're a real person - that could be faked as well but the amount of effort would be high, and checking this would be much better than just allowing effectively anonymous users to be maintainers - there's just no need for anonymity in this scenario!).