There are good reasons not to require people's "real" name to participate:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Real_Names%22_policy%3F Simon PJ often advocates to know people's name as part of creating a friendly community. There are good things about this. It also helps exclude people with less privilege, whom we have few enough of already, if it is a policy. I like most things about "Developer's Certificate of Origin", though. -Isaac On 10/30/2014 04:13 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > Hi, > > GHC's Git history has (mostly) a good track record of having properly > attributed authorship information in the recent past; Some time ago I've > even augmented the .mailmap file to fix-up some of the pre-Git meta-data > which had mangled author/committer meta-data (try 'git shortlog -sn' if > you're curious) > > However, I just noticed that > > > http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/322810e32cb18d7749e255937437ff2ef99dca3f > > landed recently, which did change a significant amount of code, but at > the same time the author looks like a pseudonym to me (and apologies if > I'm wrong). > > Other important projects such as Linux or Samba, just to name two > examples, reject contributions w/o a clearly stated origin, and > explicitly reject anonymous/pseudonym contributions (as part of their > "Developer's Certificate of Origin" policy[1] which involves a bit more > than merely stating the real name) > > I believe the GHC project should consider setting some reasonable > ground-rules for contributions to be on the safe side in order to avoid > potential copyright (or similiar) issues in the future, as well as > giving confidence to commercial users that precautions are taken to > avoid such issues. > > Comments? > > Cheers, > hvr > > [1]: See > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
