It's the way contributions (be it bugreports, patches or quite literally anything else) to the kernel (and many other long-standing opensource projects) have always worked, for the last 32 years. Communication and patches happen via public mailing lists, the contact information is part of this (otherwise, how would anyone be able to respond). Everyone can subscribe to these mailing lists, everyone -including public list archives- will get the full mail as submitted by the sender. In recent years, some list archives have started obfuscating mail addresses, but that doesn't mean they're not there (and used for Reported-by, Tested-by, Signed-off-by and similar tags that hold some meaning by git) and easily obtainable from other sources.
There are 2 separate issues here. One is that email addresses on the public boards are not sanitized. Another one is that email addresses of bug reporters get published in patch messages. imho in 2024, both issues could be solved. As to the first issue, personally I see no benefit whatsoever in publishing email addresses of people who are asking for support or helping others. As to the second issue, there is a benefit of giving credit to people who contribute to the development in some way, but that could be made optional, for example on Bugzilla, when adding a new bug report, the system could ask: do you want your email address to be included with the patches?
I think we can get back on-topic now.
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