Yes, that was a surprising requirement when submitting a bug report. (I understand patches may need to be like that due to copyright issues)

It's the same with a lot of open source contributions; those need to do so for legal and copyright reasons.

If you're afraid of doxxing and / or stalking though, at least you have the choice to not contribute. You can still post somewhere else and ask someone else to make the report for you if need be.

I'm not aware of any other open source project that required a real name just to file a bug

This is stupid and [the given reasoning](https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/anonymous-help/) makes no sense. If you post open source software and open issues for it, and I post a properly formatted, reproducible, clear issue, there is absolutely no reason for me to disclose my identity for the sake of your ego.

I looked at the bug report form and for context it links to a post “Dear anonymous internet user asking for help” https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/anonymous-help/

It seems to be about wanting to know who you're talking to when providing free support for an open-source project, and whether the person submitting an issue is using the project for personal use or within an organization.

> If I don’t know who you are, am I enabling you to build the new Turkish censorship infrastructure, or helping you implement [Russian internet blocking] more efficiently? These are two examples that actually happened by the way.