Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] glep-0076: add clarification about the sign-off requirements

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:08 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> So what is the tl;dr of this? We stay with the complete chain of s-o-b
> lines, but keep the strict real name requirement only for the final
> committer?
>

That is my sense of it (which I spelled out a bit more in my prior
email), but I really don't have a strong opinion on the real name for
outside contributors.  Having it reduces risk, but I'm not sure it
makes sense considering the type of org we are, and what we'd give up
vs what we get.  As others have said pseudonyms usually are legal and
it isn't like we're checking passports even for the real names.  I'm
not sure if we have any numbers on how many are impacted, but I'm
sympathetic.

I guess we could always ask people to at least use the real-name
generator instead of the scifi-name generator to come up with them, if
Rachael Lincoln sounds better than CommanderSkyshadow328.

-- 
Rich