> you encourage a bunch of forks, then people ping you in those based on git blame, and many other out-of-band contacts Not that this really addresses the poin

> you encourage a bunch of forks, then people ping you in those based on git blame, and many other out-of-band contacts Not that this really addresses the point that you were making, but at least the git blame part is pretty solvable by just using a throwaway email for the commits. If you're already not caring about getting contributions, you could even rewrite history to amend everything to use the new email retroactively!