On Thu, 2026-06-04 at 13:32 +0200, Tomas Glozar wrote: > Hi Steven, > > čt 4. 6. 2026 v 1:19 odesílatel Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> > napsal: > > Hi Gabriele, > > > > What is this? All commits need to be authored by and signed off by > > from > > a real person with their official name. > > > > https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your- > > work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin > > > > -- Steve > > > > Is this really still the case? Note that the document says: > > "using a known identity (sorry, no anonymous contributions.)"
Thanks Tomas for chipping in! Just adding some information, the username unknownbbqr is in fact a valid username for a Github account. The user already sent a patch and updated it with a real name [1]. All this to say that, in my opinion unknownbbqrx <[email protected]> is NOT an anonymous contribution, just a nickname that differs from the legal name of this person (which we wouldn't validate anyway), so I would say it complies with the rules. Thanks, Gabriele [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ > > It really used to say "real name", but it was changed by Linus in > 2023 > [1]. Note especially this section by Linus: > > " It was 2006, and nobody reacted to the wording, the whole Facebook > 'real > name' controversy was a decade in the future, and nobody even > thought > about it. And despite the language, we've always accepted > nicknames and > that language was never meant to be any kind of exclusionary > wording." > > The wording sounds quite clear to me. And I'm certain that there were > contributions under pseudonymous identity that have been accepted > since then, most famously by Asahi Lina, a vtuber persona [2]. I > don't > really see a difference between that and "unknownbbqrx", other than > the latter doesn't sound like a real name. > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330 > [2] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2e2f6b0ef8551bf3bd8255729d27e3ad9451e562 > > Tomas
