On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 03:54:29PM +0100, intrigeri wrote:
Hi,
Daniel P. Berrange:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 04:04:34PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> Didn't we have a policy of using real names in commit messages? I
>> remember someone advocating that (Eric?), so I did that as well. But to
>> be honest, I can't find it anywhere in our docs, but it makes sense if
>> there is a need for anything related to attributions or copyrights.
> I just assumed "intrigeri" is a real name :-)
I have no ID with "intrigeri" written on it, so you may consider it's
not a "real name".
However, it is a "real name" in the sense that I've been known under
this name, and only it, in the FOSS community since ~13 years.
A number of list members have met me at various events such as FOSDEM
or DebConf. This was enough for me to become a Debian developer as
"intrigeri" a few years ago; AFAIK the Debian project has granted two
such exceptions like this in its history, based on good reasons for
it, that one has to (privately) explain to the Debian accounts
managers… which was the case for me. This was also enough for many
people to feel comfortable publicly signing my OpenPGP key, after
working with me for some time, remotely and in person.
I hope that this background will be enough to allow me to keep
contributing to the libvirt project using the same identity as the one
I'm known as, and was able to contribute as, everywhere else in the
FOSS community so far. If a newly formalized policy prevents me from
contributing as "intrigeri", then I'll need to have my contributions
relayed by other people to this project, which will be impractical,
demotivating, and a waste of time for everybody involved.
I think that fact that you are well known in the FOSS community under
this identity is enough for us to consider this a valid exception to
our general desire for real names. It would be different if someone
were using a psuedonym which has no history of usage in FOSS, as that
would raise questions of trust wrt the contributions.
Regards,
Daniel
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