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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Anonymous contributions
From:       Nate Graham <nate () kde ! org>
Date:       2019-04-16 13:15:48
Message-ID: 16a264a0bf5.c1b70fe619787.6732190125187169228 () kde ! org
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 ---- On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:14:31 -0600 Boudewijn Rempt <boud@kde.org> 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


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