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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0076: Require real name instead of legal name
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:02:08
Message-Id: 6029a4d43621b3c900dfc845d39f35c561a35898.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0076: Require real name instead of legal name by Anna Vyalkova
1 On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 05:28 +0500, Anna Vyalkova wrote:
2 > This patch uses more friendly language towards potential transgender
3 > and plural contributors.
4 >
5 > No other projects require to use a legal name, e.g. Linux says to use
6 > your real name[0].
7 >
8 > Government issued documents are really a bad example since in some
9 > countries it's really hard to get your name changed there.
10 >
11 > [0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin
12 >
13 > Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/805575
14 > Signed-off-by: Anna Vyalkova <cyber+gentoo@×××××.in>
15 > ---
16 > glep-0076.rst | 4 ++--
17 > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
18 >
19 > diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst
20 > index 2216483..27db00a 100644
21 > --- a/glep-0076.rst
22 > +++ b/glep-0076.rst
23 > @@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ the Certificate of Origin by adding ::
24 > Signed-off-by: Name <e-mail>
25 >
26 > to the commit message as a separate line. The sign-off must contain
27 > -the committer's legal name as a natural person, i.e., the name that
28 > -would appear in a government issued document.
29 > +the committer's real name as a natural person, i.e., the name that
30 > +you would use to present yourself to your colleagues.
31 >
32
33 This is insensitive to people who don't have any colleagues.
34
35 --
36 Best regards,
37 Michał Górny

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