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From: Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] glep-0076: add clarification about the sign-off requirements
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:14:55
Message-Id: e23ac1de-80a6-025f-9abb-b5048ca5a691@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] glep-0076: add clarification about the sign-off requirements by Andrew Ammerlaan
1 On 2021-07-28 16:12, Andrew Ammerlaan wrote:
2
3 >> Please read again what I've written. The origin of the contribution
4 >> should be traceable, not the contributor.
5 >
6 > What exactly is the difference? It seems to me that if a contributor
7 > authors a commit, then he or she *is* the origin of that commit.
8
9 That is how this looks to me as well.
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11 > As a general rule of thumb, one should never collect personal
12 > information that one does not strictly require. And at the moment I
13 > still don't really understand why we *need* someone's 'legal name'
14 > (especially given that we cannot verify it).
15
16 This.
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18 --
19 MS

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