From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 699E5158094 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F51CE0E7C; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2DDAE0A0B for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:35:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw1-f181.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-31c89111f23so85297477b3.0 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 08:35:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AJIora9eo7z1DGA5FTewA8j2kG+stQ5upyqHQkM07RCH96FOI40oXRw2 cGPvzTQqAPOIwPocax1mWP0PTHBJaRgFoF1H+hQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGRyM1sDZwukTmAQUZfz1dCDNw/N2QwqVOA7QANCHZtzy+wp4l6uRF8kfXbVzSFR4qf4xe+RY+qmUp8K9iGekIlG6Pc= X-Received: by 2002:a81:5957:0:b0:31c:f620:17ef with SMTP id n84-20020a815957000000b0031cf62017efmr25143747ywb.19.1657640104947; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 08:35:04 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20220712002836.20274-1-cyber+gentoo@sysrq.in> <6029a4d43621b3c900dfc845d39f35c561a35898.camel@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: From: Mike Gilbert Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:34:54 -0400 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0076: Require real name instead of legal name To: Gentoo Dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 92970d23-2b70-4d76-ae46-1f19f1a9a0b2 X-Archives-Hash: 2eb9ef68152bd49a9f20edc152229c2a On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:47 AM Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > >>>>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2022, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > > >> to the commit message as a separate line. The sign-off must contain > >> -the committer's legal name as a natural person, i.e., the name that > >> -would appear in a government issued document. > >> +the committer's real name as a natural person, i.e., the name that > >> +you would use to present yourself to your colleagues. > > > This is insensitive to people who don't have any colleagues. > > The snarkiness of Micha=C5=82's comment left aside, in general "the name = that > you would use to present yourself to your colleagues" won't work. It is > one of the examples in [1]: > > | 4. People have, at this point in time, one full name which they go by. > | Not so, even in Western countries, where a woman may choose to retain > | her unmarried name at work (where she is already known by that name), > | and use her husband=E2=80=99s surname on social occasions, and even on = legal > | documents such as mortgages and loans. So what's the problem? That people can have more than one "real name"? Can't they just pick one?