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Not sure that many OSS projects are going to be interested in merging a patch where a conversation with the patch author for review/feedback can't happen

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I get that, but at the same time, there's a ton of reasons why a developer might not want their name attached to a bunch of code.

As a maintainer myself, I can respect that. If the PR is important enough, I'm more than happy to merge it without knowing the author (with some additional tweaking if necessary).

Can you tell me one real example of why somebody would do that? I mean REAL, not some random reason you just think of.

Legally questionable projects. There's plenty of projects on github which can be used for nefarious purposes with disclaimers that it shouldn't be used as such.

Eh, you'd be surprised.

Big projects? no.

But I sometimes submit patches to small projects that I've integrated into personal projects, and pretty much every patch I've ever submitted has been accepted without comment.

I set my git username and email to "<>" at the global level, which completely breaks githubs UI, and people /still/ accept the pull requests.

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