Questions about real name policy

[Josh]

Hello KDE community,

I'm not sure if this is the best ML to post it in, but anyway - what is our 
current stance on a real name policy? We were recently asked again in a Matrix 
channel and the consensus seems to be "we don't know?" From what I can tell, 
you *must* use your real name or else our git commit hooks will reject any 
pushes. From some precursory web searches, people say to work around this by 
putting spaces in the git username field. So it's allowed, but unofficially? The 
git commit hook doesn't mention this work around I think.

I have gotten more than zero complaints/questions about this policy, and I've 
only been here for a year. When tracking down something "official", all I've 
found is a few mentions on the Community wiki. If we dismissed the policy, 
then we should update those commit hooks. These contributors are starting to 
make non-trivial commits to projects I care about, so it would really great if 
we can accommodate them.

Whatever decision we make, can we document this somewhere so I can link people 
to it? Preferably on kde.org, where it it's immutable and official looking like 
our code of conduct.

(If the reason is "it's because of relicensing", I have a hard time tracking 
down people even when I know their full names. I would prefer better reasons 
than that, if possible 😆)

Thanks,
Josh