3 ms·
"Lasse Collin," as other posters here have found, does not seem to exist as an experienced coder. Oddly, there is a Swedish jazz musician named Lasse Collin, wh
by Zigurd 3y ago
"Lasse Collin," as other posters here have found, does not seem to exist as an experienced coder. Oddly, there is a Swedish jazz musician named Lasse Collin, which would otherwise be one of those names, especially the last name, that would stick out. Instead it is buried under a lot of mentions of a musician.
- rany_ 3y agoSearching for my real name on Google doesn't return anything either, I don't think this means anything.
- Zigurd 3y agoLasse Collin the contributor is findable, especially if you add "tukaani" to the search. But not in any other context, unless that's what old jazz musicians do in their retirement.
- rany_ 3y agoI don't think that's what they meant. The idea is to find information about their personal life, not OSS contributions. Something that proves they're a real person.
- akyuu 3y agoLasse Collin has been working on xz for decades: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/09814bb2/?limit=25#d81a https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/0... Now, whether his GitHub account is currently being controlled by him is another question. Also, for some more context: In 2022, Lasse said he was struggling to work on xz and was looking for maintainers, and mentioned Jia Tan: https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00567.html https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00567.h...