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On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 09:00:54 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> I don't see how any of this would prevent a committer from adding a |
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> Signed-off-by line. |
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Here, it just seems like unnecessary fluff, given the committer and the |
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signed-off-by line should be identical. |
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It makes more sense in the kernel, where patches get formatted with |
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only author data, and the chain of custody from the border to its final |
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commit in kernel@ is not necessarily completely obvious. |
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Whereas in Gentoo, we don't really have any of those intermediate steps. |
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Its more a question what it seeks to achieve that can't be done with |
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existing data. |
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Especially considering anyone can trivially forge such a statement |
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and pretend they committed on somebody elses behalf after receiving a |
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patch. |
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And I somewhat find the "real names" policy somewhat obnoxious, for as |
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far as I'm aware, pseudonyms are just as legally binding as real names. |
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Requiring a legal name just excludes people, and well known pseudonymous |
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authors like "why_" would never participate in such a scheme. |
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