Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2019-07-21

["Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@hacktivis.me>]

[2019-07-13 09:39:15+0200] Ulrich Mueller:
> >>>>> On Tue, 09 Jul 2019, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote:
> 
> > Not sure if as a non-developer I can call for an agenda item but as it
> > has been in other threads by developers I think there should be a
> > removal of the "legal name"[1] part of GLEP-76.
> 
> > It's been driving at least two active contributors away, with a least
> > one other person having their name outed, which is a seriously bad
> > flag. (I don't have the link right now to it but could find it at a
> > later time. And I think it would be better to not send it publicly
> > anyway)
> 
> Contributors will need proxy committers in any case, who can then
> signoff the commit with their real name. This has explicitly been
> clarified in the meeting when GLEP 76 was accepted [1]:
> 
> | - Pseudonymous / anonymous contributions would have to be proxied to
> |   ::gentoo by a committer with real name.
> 
> So, we can discuss your item, but I don't think that it raises anything
> new that hasn't been addressed in [2].

Oh, I wasn't aware of this decision. And I can confirm that I agree
with the decision taken in the meeting and so that it addresses my item.

Unfortunatetly, it doesn't looks like it was addressed and/or clarified
in the glep-0076.rst document by looking at the git history.[3]

> > 1: Which is very vague as depending on the jurisdiction you can quite
> > easily change your name either with a bit of money for the paperwork
> > or having testimony from people that they know you under this name.
> 
> Right, but if your government issues a passport with that name, it isn't
> up to us to question it.

Okay, wasn't sure of the policy regarding legal names as it quite
depends between something you can use for administrative purposes and
something like a identity document like a passport.
So might be a good idea to clarify this one to be sure that people are
going to use the right one.

> Ulrich
> 
> [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20180909-summary.txt
> [2] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20180909.txt (20:15-20:30)

[3]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/log/glep-0076.rst