On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 01:18:44PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-05-16, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 09:51:17AM +0100, Jernej Škrabec wrote: > >> Let me first explain that it was oversight on my side not noticing initials in > >> your SoB tag. But since the issue was raised by Maxime, I didn't follow up. > >> > >> Dne sobota, 13. februar 2021 ob 07:51:32 CET je B.R. Oake napisal(a): > >> > On Wed Feb 10 at 16:01:18 CET 2021, Maxime Ripard wrote: > >> > > Unfortunately we can't take this patch as is, this needs to be your real > >> > > name, see: > >> > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#de > >> > > veloper-s-certificate-of-origin-1-1 > >> > Dear Maxime, > >> > > >> > Thank you very much for considering my contribution and for all your > >> > work on supporting sunxi-based hardware; I appreciate it. > >> > > >> > Thank you for referring me to the Developer's Certificate of Origin, but > >> > I had already read it before submitting (I had to do so in order to know > >> > what I was saying by "Signed-off-by:") and I do certify what it says. > >> > > >> > Looking through recent entries in the commit log of the mainline kernel, > >> > I see several patches from authors such as: > >> > > >> > H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > B K Karthik <karthik.bk2000@xxxxxxxx> > >> > JC Kuo <jckuo@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > EJ Hsu <ejh@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > LH Lin <lh.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > Karthik B S <karthik.b.s@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > Shreyas NC <shreyas.nc@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > Vandana BN <bnvandana@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > > >> > so I believe names of this form are in fact acceptable, even if the > >> > style might seem a little old-fashioned to some. > >> > >> Speaking generally, not only for this case, prior art arguments rarely hold, > >> because: > >> - it might be oversight, > >> - it might be a bad practice, which should not be followed in new > >> contributions, > >> - different maintainers have different point of view on same thing, > >> - maintainer wants to adapt new practice or steer subsystem in new direction > >> > >> > > >> > I would like to add that I have met many people with names such as C.J., > >> > A A, TC, MG, etc. That is what everybody calls them and it would be > >> > natural for them to sign themselves that way. Some of them might want to > >> > contribute to Linux some day, and I think it would be a great shame and > >> > a loss to all of us if they were discouraged from doing so by reading > >> > our conversation in the archives and concluding that any contribution > >> > from them, however small, would be summarily refused simply because of > >> > their name. Please could you ensure that does not happen? > >> > >> The link you posted says following: > >> "using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)" > >> > >> I believe that real name means no initials, no matter what people are > >> accustomed to. From my point of view, CJ is pseudonym derived from real name. > >> > >> This is not the first time that fix of SoB tag was requested, you can find such > >> requests in ML archives. > > I'm sure this isn't the first time this sort of thing has been brought > up on this subject, but I feel obliged to mention: > > https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ > > This seems to be blocked on culturally dependent perception of what > looks like a "real name" as opposed to any technical grounds. > > What is the goal of the "real name" in Signed-off-by actually trying to > achieve? https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#developer-s-certificate-of-origin-1-1 I'm not the one making the rules, sorry Maxime
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