On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 12:28:43AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On 2025-07-05 at 22:50:43, redoste wrote: > [...] > > Since I knew that the Linux kernel changed their documentation to remove > > the use of "real name", I thought it was more common and didn't relly > > think about it a lot. > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330 > > > > I'm sorry, I should have read the git documentation more thoroughly. > > > > If it's really an issue I don't mind signing off with a different and > > more distinctive name. > > No, I think this is fine. You weren't obligated to explain that and our > policies should gracefully handle this situation regardless, but given > what I said before and this context, I think the name you have is fine. > Git unfortunately has poor support for replacing names and I would't > want you to have to put your deadname into our history for all of > eternity. > > I'll send a patch to fix the policy. Ah, I hadn't heard about that change in the kernel. I agree that it would make sense to loosen our text to match. Thanks (in advance) for sending that doc update, and for your earlier comments in the thread. I agreed with everything you wrote there. FWIW, my personal inclinations lean much more towards allowing privacy and anonymity, but as a reviewer for the project I wanted to make sure we were not violating our own policy in a way that would eventually bite us in a legal sense. The notion of "identifiable but pseudonymous" you brought up seems like a good middle ground (at least to my layman's ears). And thanks redoste for your patch. ;) Sorry if bringing up the signoff issue caused any hassle (but hopefully it will lead to an improvement to our docs). -Peff
