Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0076: Require real name instead of legal name

[Robin H. Johnson]

Find attached v4 of the patch, with all of the proposed changes
included.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 09:24:25AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022, Robin H Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 02:26:43AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >> The "natural person" part was lost in this change. It also doesn't
> >> reappear in the added section below. I think we don't want any corporate
> >> entities there (or at least that's what I had taken from the previous
> >> "Sony" discussion).
> > Will re-add to the name section.
Clarified to exclude corporations.

> > For this section, I had a further thought and feel this is cleaner:
> >  to the commit message as a separate line.  The sign-off must contain
> > -the committer's legal name as a natural person, i.e., the name that
> > -would appear in a government issued document.
> > +the contributor's name as discussed in the next section.
>
> Good point, and much better. (In fact, in the previous version I
> wondered why "Name" would have a capital letter, until I realized that
> it referred to the example above.)
>
> Also, with the new wording, you could say "contributor's name as a
> natural person" here, and leave the next section alone. Just as a
> suggestion, with no strong preference on my side.
Done.

> > The new text was substantially written by myself, with the great suggestion
> > from kuzetsa, and then everybody else contributed good edits to it.
>
> So far we had followed the principle not to list authors in the
> acknowledgements (which is worded "the authors would like to thank").
> If we start adding them for revision 1.2, then we'd have to add more
> names to the existing list.
How's the clarification now, making it clear those are the authors for
version 1.2?

> > If you're happy to not take extra acknowledgement that this was for Rev 1.2,
> > I'll just tweak it to add kuzetsa to authors and ajak to thanks list.
> Please do. CCing rich0 and antarus, are you happy with this?

>
> Another small point: Whitespace in the new section doesn't follow the
> style in the rest of the GLEP, which uses two blank lines before and one
> blank line after section headings, as well as two spaces at the end of
> every sentence. (This is also what GLEP 2 says.)
Fixed - the blank lines were inconsistent in multiple places, but the
two spaces were correct.

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