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

[apinheiro]

On 12/12/19 5:46, Mark Janes wrote:
> Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> writes:
>
>> On 12/11/19 2:27 PM, Timothy Arceri 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.
>> First we don't allow single Unicode characters or emojis, and now you
>> want to require realistic looking names.  Where does it end, Tim?!?
>> WHERE DOES IT END???
>>
>> 🤣
>>
>> But seriously... I definitely agree with the sentiment.  It seems really
>> lame to have a bunch of commits from clearly nonsense names.  Who are
>> these randos?
> Perhaps they are graphics developers working at corporations where
> management is not enthusiastic about contributions to mesa?
>
> Or, agents seeking to damage mesa by submitting vulnerable or
> IP-entangled code?
>
> The kernel does not allow anonymous contributions, to ensure all
> contributions are compatible with the GPL.


Out of curiosity: and how far they go to ensure that they are not 
anonymous contributions? So for this case, why Icecream95 is not 
anonymous ? It is a nickname that after a quick googling he has been 
using for a long time now, so he is already known by that nickname.


>
>> Where's the accountability?
>>
>> As far as any possible legal aspects go, since we don't require (as far
>> as I'm aware) submitters to sign any sort of certificate of origin, I
>> don't know that Icecream95 is any better or worse than Ralphio Grant (a
>> realistic looking name that I just made up) or Ian Romanck.
>>
>> It seems to me that this is a social problem, so it likely has a social
>> solution.  If we don't want people to be anonymous cowards with clearly
>> phony names, we should try to make the alternatives of being involved in
>> the community and using a real name more attractive.  We should do our
>> best to encourage people to "do the right thing."
>>
>> I don't think it's very realistic for us to try to compel people to do
>> so, and I don't think there's much value in it... especially if it
>> drives away people making technically competent contributions.
>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/3050#note_361924
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