Should public developers be anonymous? Now I think this is not going to help at all, since the intelligence agencies (the real predators) already have a dossier of them. Look at how they completely doxxed the Samourai developers during the takedown.
Best thing to do is to have the ability to organize a good legal defense.
Open source needs more lawyers.
This is a huge attack against privacy and against volunteers. Those who want to build a privacy tools and take their part into it, should definitely think twice. But I still think that this is not the end, since there is a war between some countries that have high skilled software developers, privacy tools might be created and improved by governments to upset each-other, also, some countries might offer asylum to wanted developers.
Should public developers be anonymous?
Can they stay anonymous?
I think that's the problem, they are still signing up on a centralized websites like the one owned by Microsoft (ie. Github) and have to push commits there. This can create a lot of challenges for someone who wants to stay truly anonymous.
It should be hard for software developers to create and use p2p decentralized collaboration network. Decentralized products are hard to use for average people with no coding experience. Those who are skilled in software development, shouldn't find such a network/website confusing. But I believe that it won't be popular because many people don't care about decentralization.