On dinsdag 16 april 2019 15:15:48 CEST Nate Graham wrote: > ---- On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:14:31 -0600 Boudewijn Rempt <b...@kde.org> wrote > ---- > > > > There's another, related thing. We've got a "full name" checking git hook > which tries to force commits to have "real names". > > > > This hook is, of course, broken: no software developer can ever make a > check for names that's not brokenm because there _are no rules for names_. > This check thinks that a full need needs to have two parts separated by a > space: a first name and a surname. This assumption is untrue for instance for > many Tamil people. > > In fact this is not an academic concern. We have a fairly active contributor > by the name of "Shubham" who, due to the commit hookscript filter, has been > forced to manufacture a last name and go by a fake name! Maybe we should turn > it off. >
Of course it's not academic, and yes, it should be turned off. It is impossible to write a check whether some string is a valid or real name. -- https://www.valdyas.org | https://www.krita.org
