From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 19:37:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] linux-2.6.17-rc3-git13 fs/proc/array.c Message-Id: <20060509193714.GE12272@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============38412655903801429==" List-Id: References: <445EDBCA.9080702@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <445EDBCA.9080702@gmail.com> To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org --===============38412655903801429== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:49:32AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:58:45AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:40:10AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > Doesn't matter, we still need a real name. It's not a legal issue but a > > > "trace the blame" issue. > > > > A pseudonym + email address performs acceptably for "trace the blame". > > So I don't see how your two statements are related. > > It's a matter of trust. If you want to trust us to take your changes, > you need to show that you trust us enough to be willing to accept > recgonition for those changes. By using a pseudonym, you are not > showing a whole lot of trust, and by using it, it take a whole lot more > effort to get that trust. > > That being said, there are a few pseudonyms out there that I do trust, > just because they have been around for years and show that they are > trustworthy people. So ... there's no reason to turn down someone's changes, simply because they use a pseudonym? Thanks for clearing that up. --===============38412655903801429== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors --===============38412655903801429==--