From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: walter harms Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 08:00:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] linux-2.6.17-rc3-git13 Message-Id: <44604C32.7000509@bfs.de> List-Id: References: <445EF28A.1010601@bfs.de> In-Reply-To: <445EF28A.1010601@bfs.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org hi, i read that some parents in the US force there children not to reveal the identify online. This is a problem for the kids. To help i think they should tell there read identify a trustee and get a bogus name what appears in the logs. forcing them to reveal will cause only trouble. my 2 cents, walter 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: >>> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:18:08AM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: >>>> On 08.05.2006 [03:27:10 -0400], Anne Thrax wrote: >>>>> I would rather not use my real name, as I am only 14 years old. >>>> I'm not sure I entirely understand how the one stems from the other, but >>>> I think the spirit of the "personal information" part of the DCO >>>> (Developer's Certificate of Origin, in Documentation/SubmittingPatches) >>>> is something like full disclosure. Also, I wonder how, if at all, the >>>> DCO can be enforced when it involves a minor. I'll defer to Greg on this >>>> one... at least on whatever precedent exists, I don't expect a legal >>>> decision, Greg :) >>> 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. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Kernel-janitors mailing list > Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org > https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors