On 2019-12-11 at 23:46, Timothy Arceri <tarc...@itsqueeze.com> wrote: > On 12/12/19 10:38 am, Eric Engestrom wrote: > > On 2019-12-11 at 23:09, Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM Timothy Arceri <tarc...@itsqueeze.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> So it seems lately we have been increasingly merging patches with made > >>> up names, or single names etc [1]. The latest submitted patch has the > >>> name Icecream95. This seems wrong to me from a point of keeping up the > >>> integrity of the project. I'm not a legal expert but it doesn't seem > >>> ideal to be amassing commits with these type of author tags from that > >>> point of view either. > >>> > >>> Is it just me or do others agree we should at least require a proper > >>> name on the commits (as fake as that may be also)? Seems like a low bar > >>> to me. > >> > >> I'm of the opinion that in fact all names are made up, > > > > Whole heartedly agreed. > > > > Remember that many different cultures exist, and they have different customs > > around names. As an example, a teacher of mine had a single name, but the > > school > > required two separate "first name" and "last name" fields so he wrote his > > name twice, > > which appeared on every form we got from the school, yet everyone knew he > > didn't > > have what we called a "last name"/"family name". > > Another example is people from Asia who often assume a made up > > Western-sounding > > pseudonym to use when communicating with Western people, and those often > > don't > > look like real names to us. > > > > What looks like a real name to you? > > How would you even start to define such a rule? > > As per my reply to Eric Anholt I'm most concerned about the look of the > project. IMO contributions with names like Icecream95 or an atom symbol > just look unprofessional, opensource gets a hard enough time about its > professionalism as it is without encouraging this. A little common sense > can go a long way here.
If you want to ask someone to provide a real name if you think they didn't I definitely agree, and if you want to document that we want real names I'm also ok with that, but all I'm saying is that you can't *require* it because there's no reliable way to enforce that. > > > > >> and we don't > >> want to be getting into the business of requiring legal names for > >> committing. If legal names were what you were getting at: have you > >> checked the legal names of your fellow contributors match what they're > >> contributing under? > >> > >> I don't know what legal risk you might be thinking of, that seems like > >> spreading fear for no reason to me. > _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
