Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Gentoo Council nominees: GLEP 76

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:03:52AM +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> Adding an autogenerated "Blessed-by-Krom" has very little *meaning*, so
> what do we gain by adding an autogenerated "Blessed-by-Krom"? (No,
> eternal battle in the afterlife is not guaranteed)
> 
> Since it's mandatory to continue committing, and autogenerated ... what
> does it really do? And how does it do more than requiring people to read
> and understand the rules before, and signing their commits? (Which,
> legally, shows an equivalent intent)
> 
> (Does anyone actually read *and understand* Terms&Conditions? How do you
> verify that? Usually you'd just assume that people are not actively
> malicious and that their word is enough)
> 
> So from my perspective GLEP76 doesn't really improve the situation, just
> makes everything more complex and causes exhausting discussions about
> non-technical topics that don't improve the distro.
As a clear example of meaningful agreement to the DCO vs the
autogenerated agreement that Patrick is concerned about, look at GnuPG's
model:

1. A new contributor must send a OpenPGP-signed copy of the GnuPG DCO
   text to the public mailing list (the exact wording of the DCO
   contains only a minor change s/open/free/ per FSF principles).
2. Signed-off-by trailer in the commit message is ALSO required, and is
   only used to verify against the DCO registry.
3. The documentation says a) no pseudonyms, and b) anonymous contributions
   can be done with a proxy who is willing to certify for you:
   https://gnupg.org/faq/HACKING.html#sec-1-3
4. There's a registry of DCO signatories:
   https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=blob;f=AUTHORS;hb=HEAD#l163

However, there are two names that stand out as pseudonyms:
https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=blob;f=AUTHORS;hb=HEAD#l187

I think is an implicit outcome of the two policy statements together:
Pseudonyms are also valid if there is a certifying proxy.


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