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. See https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ for an incomplete list of wrong-headed assumptions about names. On donderdag 11 april 2019 19:24:15 CEST Nate Graham wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've seen the subject of anonymous contributions come up more and more lately > as we have a few contributors who are not comfortable providing their real > full name. This convention seems rather at odds with the Privacy goal that > the KDE community has adopted, and I can think of a few reasons why it could > be reasonable for an open-source contributor to not want to use their real > name: > - Having been stalked online > - Being a protestor or political dissident who might be targeted by their > government > - Career protection due to negative employer attitudes about open-source > software > > Being somewhat new here, let me ask the question: what's the historical > reason behind why we ask contributors to provide their full names? And do we > think it's still necessary going forward, or are there alternative means we > can employ to arrive at the same ends? > > > Nate > > -- https://www.krita.org
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