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>>>>> On Tue, 09 Jul 2019, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote: |
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> Not sure if as a non-developer I can call for an agenda item but as it |
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> has been in other threads by developers I think there should be a |
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> removal of the "legal name"[1] part of GLEP-76. |
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> It's been driving at least two active contributors away, with a least |
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> one other person having their name outed, which is a seriously bad |
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> flag. (I don't have the link right now to it but could find it at a |
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> later time. And I think it would be better to not send it publicly |
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> anyway) |
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Contributors will need proxy committers in any case, who can then |
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signoff the commit with their real name. This has explicitly been |
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clarified in the meeting when GLEP 76 was accepted [1]: |
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| - Pseudonymous / anonymous contributions would have to be proxied to |
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| ::gentoo by a committer with real name. |
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So, we can discuss your item, but I don't think that it raises anything |
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new that hasn't been addressed in [2]. |
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> 1: Which is very vague as depending on the jurisdiction you can quite |
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> easily change your name either with a bit of money for the paperwork |
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> or having testimony from people that they know you under this name. |
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Right, but if your government issues a passport with that name, it isn't |
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up to us to question it. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20180909-summary.txt |
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[2] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20180909.txt (20:15-20:30) |