Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2019-04-14

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

>>>>> On Tue, 09 Apr 2019, Gokturk Yuksek wrote:

> I'd like to (informally) propose the following, for which I'm willing
> to formulate as a GLEP proposal if there is interest:

> The Foundation has an established practice of storing the legal names
> of developers who join under a pseudonym. The infrastructure is
> already in place for this. I think that allowing these developers to
> commit using their pseudonyms as long as the Foundation is informed
> their real identity does not exacerbate the legal risks they already
> pose. The foundation may decide their arbitrary criteria on who is
> eligible for this type of protection, including requiring sound legal
> reasons for them to keep their identities hidden. I understand that
> the maintenance of this could be a burden for the Foundation in
> theory, but in practice I suspect this number is very low already.

That doesn't work, because there would be no way for a person outside of
the Foundation to verify such identities.

To clarify, I won't be opposed against making a specific exception and
"grandfathering" any devs who had commit access before the cut-off date
when GLEP 76 was implemented.

However, going forward, we shouldn't allow any further exceptions from
the real name policy.

Ulrich