I think the "anyone" here is speaking to the non-merit measures of a contribution. Anecdotally, I mostly see GitLab/GitHub usernames, not email addresses with n

I think the "anyone" here is speaking to the non-merit measures of a contribution. Anecdotally, I mostly see GitLab/GitHub usernames, not email addresses with names in them (or in the field). I think that prejudices of the sort CoCs ostensibly seek to abate are largely impractical to hold, unless you go and track down the person tied to the patch every time you get one. I think probably a lot of this is people trying to claim that because the outcomes are unequal, the procedure is unequal; when the simpler answer is that some subsets of people just tend to be composed of those who choose not to contribute to open source software projects or gain the professional competence often required to do so. Free people are not spherical cows, they have their own sets of incentives, even ones you don't understand as a career hawk businesslady or an ordinary schlub grinding at the keyboard.