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>>>>> On Sun, 17 Jun 2018, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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>> I don't see how any of this would prevent a committer from adding a |
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>> Signed-off-by line. |
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> Here, it just seems like unnecessary fluff, given the committer and the |
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> signed-off-by line should be identical. |
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The Signed-off-by line certifies agreement to the Gentoo DCO, whereas |
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the Commit line doesn't have any such meaning. Also the committer info |
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is somewhat transient and can change, e.g. when a branch gets rebased. |
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S-o-b lines won't get lost on a rebase. |
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> It makes more sense in the kernel, where patches get formatted with |
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> only author data, and the chain of custody from the border to its final |
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> commit in kernel@ is not necessarily completely obvious. |
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There are many commits in Linux that have only a single S-o-b line. |
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> Whereas in Gentoo, we don't really have any of those intermediate steps. |
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> Its more a question what it seeks to achieve that can't be done with |
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> existing data. |
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> Especially considering anyone can trivially forge such a statement |
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> and pretend they committed on somebody elses behalf after receiving a |
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> patch. |
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That's why we also require commits to be PGP signed. |
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> And I somewhat find the "real names" policy somewhat obnoxious, for as |
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> far as I'm aware, pseudonyms are just as legally binding as real names. |
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> Requiring a legal name just excludes people, and well known pseudonymous |
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> authors like "why_" would never participate in such a scheme. |
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The real name requirement is nothing new, but a policy that is in |
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effect since 2004 [1,2]: |
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| Real names must be provided for all developers, including |
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| infrastructure and documentation. Any exceptions to this for |
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| extenuating circumstances will be considered on a case-by-case |
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| basis. No exceptions will be made for people doing copyrightable |
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| work (ebuilds, software, scripts, documentation, etc.). |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/recruiters/index.xml?revision=1.15&view=markup |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Recruiters/Recruiting#What_does_the_recruitment_process_involve.3F |
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