Aleen 徐沛文 <pwxu@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Yes. >> >> As the URL you were referred to explains, the sign-off procedure is >> to keep track of provenance of the code, which is a more "legal" >> formal requirement than just "I use this pseudonym everywhere". >> When a big company comes to us, claiming that "this code is our >> intellectual property stolen from us" and pointing at code added by >> a patch from you, we do not want to see us in the position to have >> to say "eh, somebody who uses psuedonym X signed DCO, but we do not >> even know their real name". > > I know it, and as I said before that gitgitgadget need PR creators to > sign off user name of GitHub account, according to the DCO check. I can > confirmed that "Aleen" and "Aleen 徐沛文" are both the real name of mine, > the committer. I can use the account aleen42@xxxxxxxxxx to confirm this. Can somebody from GGG land help this user? I _think_ the easiest workaround (other than not using GGG and sending e-mail in the old fashioned way) is to commit and sign-off under the real name, and push under whatever GitHub username to throw a GGG pull request, which GGG should be able to take, as I have seen users forward other authors commits just fine.
