On Thu, 2026-06-04 at 08:54 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:42:02 +0200 > Gabriele Monaco <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > It's a username on github and not a nickname. I did a search for > "unknownbbqr" and it doesn't come up anywhere but Google tries to > find similar matches which brings me to an OnlyFans account :-p > > It *DOES NOT* qualify because there's no accountability for this. For > people who have a nickname as their entire internet persona, sure, > I'll take patches from them as there's an entity that exists behind > it. > But I'm not going to take some username on github as a persona. To > me, that's still anonymous.
Alright, fair. In the link I sent, the signoff got changed to Ali Ahmet MEMIS <[email protected]>, but I believe we cannot use that unless the user themselves adds it (and they seem unreachable). I posted the re-authored patch in [1], I'm not sure that's the proper way though (the patch is so simple that is unmodified). But if you give me a green light I can send you a pull request with that patch instead. Thanks, Gabriele [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ > > -- Steve
