Question asked by anonymous reveal real identity after some time

[Stefano Maffulli]

While investigating bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1276392 I noticed that the author of question https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/11405/how-to-add-more-nodes-to-an-installation/ changed from Anonymous to Govardhan. I took a screenshot of the question before the author changed (see attachment).

[Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev)]

Are we sure that the user did not himself opened his name on the post?

[Stefano Maffulli (smaffulli)]

The question had no edits when I edited it. Could he change the authorship from Anonymous to not without editing the question?

[Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev)]

I've found source of this issue - the anonymity is determined based on the anonymity of the original post - not based on the anonymity of the edit.

[Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev)]

This specific post was added openly and then edited by Stef anonymosly and the anonymity of his edit was not displayed.

[Stefano Maffulli (smaffulli)]

Evgeny: the question shows 2 revisions, the initial version and my 2. revision.

The issue is not that my name is shown after my edit. The issue is that the question was asked anonymously and *after* my edit, the name of the asker was revealed to the world.

I don't think this is good behavior: if someone wants to be anonymous, the question should stay anonymous even after it's edited by anyone but the original author.

[Stefano Maffulli (smaffulli)]

Just found out that others are seeing this on askbot.org http://askbot.org/en/question/12545/bug-anonymous-questions-are-revealed-by-administrator-edit-of-question/