From kde-community Tue Apr 16 13:15:48 2019 From: Nate Graham Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:15:48 +0000 To: kde-community Subject: Re: Anonymous contributions Message-Id: <16a264a0bf5.c1b70fe619787.6732190125187169228 () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-community&m=155542059802843 ---- On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:14:31 -0600 Boudewijn Rempt 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. Nate