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>>>>> On Fri, 21 May 2021, Robin H Johnson wrote: |
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> I've recently seen a bug [1] where a contributer was implicitly told |
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> that their name wasn't their "full name". |
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> GLEP-0076 states "The sign-off must contain the committer's legal name |
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> as a natural person, i.e., the name that would appear in a government |
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> issued document." |
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> If the person has multiple government-issued documents that don't |
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> exactly match, but ARE a form accepted by the issuing government, then |
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> Gentoo SHOULD accept them, and clearly document known forms (probably in |
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> an appendix to the GLEP). |
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> I'd like this the GLEP text I cited above, to be changed to: |
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> "The sign-off must contain the committer's legal name as a natural |
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> person, i.e., the name that would appear in a government issued |
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> document, in the commonly used form for that committer. (See Appendix |
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> for examples)" |
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No objections against the idea, but I wonder if such an appendix should |
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be included directly with the policy. I would expect it to be extended |
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or changed more often than would be convenient for reapproval by |
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Council and Trustees each time. |
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Maybe keeping it in a separate document as "supporting documentation" |
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would be more appropriate, with GLEP 76 referring to it? |
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Ulrich |
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