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Hi, |
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I've recently seen a bug [1] where a contributer was implicitly told |
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that their name wasn't their "full name". |
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GLEP-0076 states "The sign-off must contain the committer's legal name |
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as a natural person, i.e., the name that would appear in a government |
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issued document." |
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If the person has multiple government-issued documents that don't |
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exactly match, but ARE a form accepted by the issuing government, then |
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Gentoo SHOULD accept them, and clearly document known forms (probably in |
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an appendix to the GLEP). |
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I'd like this the GLEP text I cited above, to be changed to: |
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"The sign-off must contain the committer's legal name as a natural |
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person, i.e., the name that would appear in a government issued |
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document, in the commonly used form for that committer. (See Appendix |
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for examples)" |
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Population groups around the world have different naming schemes, this |
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include such things as first-name only (no surname), multiple legal |
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names. A longer list is available at "Falsehoods Programmers Believe |
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About Names" [2] |
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I'm going to contribute the first examples for the Appendix here, based |
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on cases I'm recently aware of. |
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Canada: French-Canadian Names |
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Catholic naming practices [3] may mean that a person has additional first |
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names [4] that appear in SOME of their government issued documentation, |
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but not all documentation. |
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E.g. "Jean Chrétien", former Canadian prime minster has a birth |
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certificate and some ID that use "Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien", |
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while other ID uses "Jean Chrétien". |
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India: |
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India, as a diverse country, has a variety of naming schemes [5], and |
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differing government ID rules [6] applied to those names. Notably, it |
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is common for parts of names to be written with initials on some |
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forms of ID, particularly where the initial is used to shorten a |
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specific known word (e.g. village name), such as "E.V. Ramasamy". |
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Indonesia: |
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It is possible to have only a single name (Mononymic), and no |
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surname. e.g. "Suharto" |
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[1] not linked because it's presently redacted at the request of the |
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person that opened it |
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[2] https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/ |
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[3] Canada names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_name#French_Canadian_names |
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[4] Canada Example: https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/richmond-resident-fighting-icbc-over-catholic-first-names-3674843 |
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[5] Indian names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_name |
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[6] India Example: https://scroll.in/latest/833897/people-with-initials-special-characters-in-their-names-face-problems-linking-their-pan-and-aadhaar |
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[7] Indonesian names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_names#Mononymic_names |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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