Re: [GIT PULL] rv fixes for v7.1

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 13:32:46 +0200
Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com> wrote:

> Is this really still the case? Note that the document says:
> 
> "using a known identity (sorry, no anonymous contributions.)"
> 
> It really used to say "real name", but it was changed by Linus in 2023
> [1]. Note especially this section by Linus:
> 
> " It was 2006, and nobody reacted to the wording, the whole Facebook 'real
>    name' controversy was a decade in the future, and nobody even thought
>    about it.  And despite the language, we've always accepted nicknames and
>    that language was never meant to be any kind of exclusionary wording."
> 
> The wording sounds quite clear to me. And I'm certain that there were
> contributions under pseudonymous identity that have been accepted
> since then, most famously by Asahi Lina, a vtuber persona [2]. I don't
> really see a difference between that and "unknownbbqrx", other than
> the latter doesn't sound like a real name.

It specifically says "using a known identity (sorry, no anonymous contributions.)"

As you said, Asahi Lina is well known and a very "known identity".
"unknownbbqrx" is unknown and even states it in the name.

I will not personally accept such a submission, as the Signed-off-by is
a legal statement that states you have the right to submit that code
and take all responsibility for it.

-- Steve