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[Boudewijn Rempt]

On dinsdag 16 april 2019 15:15:48 CEST Nate Graham wrote:
>  ---- On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:14:31 -0600 Boudewijn Rempt <boud at kde.org> wrote ----
>  > 
>  > There's another, related thing. We've got a "full name" checking git hook which tries to force commits to have "real names". 
>  >  
>  > This hook is, of course, broken: no software developer can ever make a check for names that's not brokenm because there _are no rules for names_. This check thinks that a full need needs to have two parts separated by a space: a first name and a surname. This assumption is untrue for instance for many Tamil people. 
> 
> In fact this is not an academic concern. We have a fairly active contributor by the name of "Shubham" who, due to the commit hookscript filter, has been forced to manufacture a last name and go by a fake name! Maybe we should turn it off.
> 

Of course it's not academic, and yes, it should be turned off. It is impossible to write a check whether some string is a valid or real name.

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