On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 7:47 PM Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch> wrote:
> On 2019-12-11 at 23:46, Timothy Arceri <tarc...@itsqueeze.com> wrote: > > On 12/12/19 10:38 am, Eric Engestrom wrote: > > > On 2019-12-11 at 23:09, Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> wrote: > > >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM Timothy Arceri <tarc...@itsqueeze.com> > wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> So it seems lately we have been increasingly merging patches with > made > > >>> up names, or single names etc [1]. The latest submitted patch has the > > >>> name Icecream95. This seems wrong to me from a point of keeping up > the > > >>> integrity of the project. I'm not a legal expert but it doesn't seem > > >>> ideal to be amassing commits with these type of author tags from that > > >>> point of view either. > > >>> > > >>> Is it just me or do others agree we should at least require a proper > > >>> name on the commits (as fake as that may be also)? Seems like a low > bar > > >>> to me. > > >> > > >> I'm of the opinion that in fact all names are made up, > > > > > > Whole heartedly agreed. > > > > > > Remember that many different cultures exist, and they have different > customs > > > around names. As an example, a teacher of mine had a single name, but > the school > > > required two separate "first name" and "last name" fields so he wrote > his name twice, > > > which appeared on every form we got from the school, yet everyone knew > he didn't > > > have what we called a "last name"/"family name". > > > Another example is people from Asia who often assume a made up > Western-sounding > > > pseudonym to use when communicating with Western people, and those > often don't > > > look like real names to us. > > > > > > What looks like a real name to you? > > > How would you even start to define such a rule? > > > > As per my reply to Eric Anholt I'm most concerned about the look of the > > project. IMO contributions with names like Icecream95 or an atom symbol > > just look unprofessional, opensource gets a hard enough time about its > > professionalism as it is without encouraging this. A little common sense > > can go a long way here. > > If you want to ask someone to provide a real name if you think they didn't > I definitely agree, > and if you want to document that we want real names I'm also ok with that, > but all I'm saying is that you can't *require* it because there's no > reliable way > to enforce that. > The question is about whether we require real names. If people lie, that's on them. Marek
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