Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0076: Require real name instead of legal name

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2022, Michał Górny 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 Michał'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’s surname on social occasions, and even on legal
| documents such as mortgages and loans.

(IIRC, robbat2 had once pointed me to that document, in the context of
a contributor from South India with a single-letter name.)

Ulrich

[1] https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/

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