[Mesa-dev] Requiring a full author name when contributing to mesa?

[Marek Olšák]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 7:47 PM Eric Engestrom <eric at engestrom.ch> wrote:

> On 2019-12-11 at 23:46, Timothy Arceri <tarceri at itsqueeze.com> wrote:
> > On 12/12/19 10:38 am, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> > > On 2019-12-11 at 23:09, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM Timothy Arceri <tarceri at itsqueeze.com>
> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> So it seems lately we have been increasingly merging patches with
> made
> > >>> up names, or single names etc [1]. The latest submitted patch has the
> > >>> name Icecream95. This seems wrong to me from a point of keeping up
> the
> > >>> integrity of the project. I'm not a legal expert but it doesn't seem
> > >>> ideal to be amassing commits with these type of author tags from that
> > >>> point of view either.
> > >>>
> > >>> Is it just me or do others agree we should at least require a proper
> > >>> name on the commits (as fake as that may be also)? Seems like a low
> bar
> > >>> to me.
> > >>
> > >> I'm of the opinion that in fact all names are made up,
> > >
> > > Whole heartedly agreed.
> > >
> > > Remember that many different cultures exist, and they have different
> customs
> > > around names. As an example, a teacher of mine had a single name, but
> the school
> > > required two separate "first name" and "last name" fields so he wrote
> his name twice,
> > > which appeared on every form we got from the school, yet everyone knew
> he didn't
> > > have what we called a "last name"/"family name".
> > > Another example is people from Asia who often assume a made up
> Western-sounding
> > > pseudonym to use when communicating with Western people, and those
> often don't
> > > look like real names to us.
> > >
> > > What looks like a real name to you?
> > > How would you even start to define such a rule?
> >
> > As per my reply to Eric Anholt I'm most concerned about the look of the
> > project. IMO contributions with names like Icecream95 or an atom symbol
> > just look unprofessional, opensource gets a hard enough time about its
> > professionalism as it is without encouraging this. A little common sense
> > can go a long way here.
>
> If you want to ask someone to provide a real name if you think they didn't
> I definitely agree,
> and if you want to document that we want real names I'm also ok with that,
> but all I'm saying is that you can't *require* it because there's no
> reliable way
> to enforce that.
>

The question is about whether we require real names. If people lie, that's
on them.

Marek
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