On Fri, 2019-12-13 at 11:00 +1100, Timothy Arceri wrote: > On 13/12/19 10:15 am, Alex Deucher wrote: > > What does the name matter? The name is the least of your worries. > > What if their patch uses a patented algorithm? Does anyone check > > for > > that? The whole Signed-off-by thing just just hazing for newbs. > > Someone took the time to write and submit a patch. We trust they > > did > > the right thing and didn't do anything illegal. It's on the > > reviewers > > to determine if the patch is reasonable and should be applied. The > > name is just window dressing. > > Yes exactly the name is just window dressing, where a window dressing > is > "designed to create a favourable impression". In this case to make > our > project look competently and professionally run at a glance. I've > been > lucky enough to be employed to work on this project for around 5 > years > now, but don't expect this to last forever. Eventually I'd like to > be > able to point out to future employers the work I've been doing for > all > this time. Personally I'd like the window dressing to look nice when > this time comes. > > If other developers don't care which was my original question then > I'll > stop wasting my time requesting people not use such author names.
We review code, not people. I agree that we should prefer a 'real' name, but we shouldn't require it. Some people may have a good reason to conceal their identity. I get what you mean, but why do you feel that allowing people to contribute using a nickname is unprofessional? You can still tell your (hypothetical) future employer that you worked on a high-profile free / open source project where several big companies managed to work together. The fact that contributions from amateurs (with or without a 'proper' name) is accepted I think makes the project look better, not worse. Just my 20 cents. Best regards, Tim _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev