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"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.


Lasse Collin has been working on xz for decades: 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.h...


Searching for my real name on Google doesn't return anything either, I don't think this means anything.


Lasse 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.


I 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.




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