On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 03:54:29PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > Daniel P. Berrange: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 04:04:34PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > >> Didn't we have a policy of using real names in commit messages? I > >> remember someone advocating that (Eric?), so I did that as well. But to > >> be honest, I can't find it anywhere in our docs, but it makes sense if > >> there is a need for anything related to attributions or copyrights. > > > I just assumed "intrigeri" is a real name :-) > > I have no ID with "intrigeri" written on it, so you may consider it's > not a "real name". > > However, it is a "real name" in the sense that I've been known under > this name, and only it, in the FOSS community since ~13 years. > A number of list members have met me at various events such as FOSDEM > or DebConf. This was enough for me to become a Debian developer as > "intrigeri" a few years ago; AFAIK the Debian project has granted two > such exceptions like this in its history, based on good reasons for > it, that one has to (privately) explain to the Debian accounts > managers… which was the case for me. This was also enough for many > people to feel comfortable publicly signing my OpenPGP key, after > working with me for some time, remotely and in person. > > I hope that this background will be enough to allow me to keep > contributing to the libvirt project using the same identity as the one > I'm known as, and was able to contribute as, everywhere else in the > FOSS community so far. If a newly formalized policy prevents me from > contributing as "intrigeri", then I'll need to have my contributions > relayed by other people to this project, which will be impractical, > demotivating, and a waste of time for everybody involved.
I think that fact that you are well known in the FOSS community under this identity is enough for us to consider this a valid exception to our general desire for real names. It would be different if someone were using a psuedonym which has no history of usage in FOSS, as that would raise questions of trust wrt the contributions. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
