From kde-community  Tue Apr 16 20:58:26 2019
From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:58:26 +0000
To: kde-community
Subject: Re: Anonymous contributions
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On dinsdag 16 april 2019 22:31:38 CEST Nicol=E1s Alvarez wrote:

> It seems easier to whitelist legitimate mononyms on request...

No, no, no! You cannot do that, unless you have an exhaustive list of "vali=
d mononyms" -- and you're still deluding yourself into the assumption that =
you can code something that can recognize a string as a valid name. You can=
not do that. I cannot do that. Nobody can do that. We must stop trying to d=
o that. It's a delusion with bad consequences.

Nobody can code a valid name recognition algorithm; we should not try that.=
 It's better to have the occasional mistake in our git history than to go d=
own this path.

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