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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Anonymous contributions
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2019-04-16 15:03:34
Message-ID: 3039188.vfUcX9Y7sy () sebe
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On dinsdag 16 april 2019 15:15:48 CEST Nate Graham wrote:
> ---- 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. 

Of course it's not academic, and yes, it should be turned off. It is impossible to write a \
check whether some string is a valid or real name.

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