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| From: | Anna Vyalkova <cyber+gentoo@×××××.in> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-project@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-project] Taking the signoff bait | ||
| Date: | Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:37:39 | ||
| Message-Id: | Yq78bYJT701cOD5a@sysrq.in | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-project] Taking the signoff bait by Ulrich Mueller |
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| 1 | On 2022-06-19 12:33, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
| 2 | > > * the only thing I dislike and sabotage in Gentoo's signoff policy is |
| 3 | > > that uses "legal name" instead of "real name" - change that already... |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > That wording went through several iterations, the last of which changed |
| 6 | > it from "real name" to "legal name" [1]. |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > IIRC, the rationale behind this change was that "real name" was deemed |
| 9 | > to vague, and to account for officially registered pseudonyms. |
| 10 | > For example, the German passport has an optional field "religious name |
| 11 | > or pseudonym" [2]. |
| 12 | > |
| 13 | > Ulrich |
| 14 | > |
| 15 | > [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/glep-0076.rst?id=dcc841a715dfa077258fa3f8bef5f15ee22148cb |
| 16 | > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_passport#Following_page |
| 17 | |
| 18 | You can explain "real name" differently. I'd write: |
| 19 | > like how you introduce yourself to colleagues |
| 20 | |
| 21 | I'll send a patch for the GLEP after the elections. |