Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:51:52 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: doc-committers@freebsd.org, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@freebsd.org>, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors contrib.additional.sgml Message-ID: <4A2590E8.50902@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20090602203111.GA8762@gothic.blackend.org> References: <200906021154.n52BsOj2024305@repoman.freebsd.org> <4A2515B1.5030107@FreeBSD.org> <873aaisg7x.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20090602203111.GA8762@gothic.blackend.org>
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> Well, we cannot force people to give their "real" name if they don't > want to. Everyone is free to choose and everyone can have his own > reasons. Refusing to give credits or to add someone to the contributors > list cause he prefers to not give his real name will not give a positive > image of the project. > On the other hand, what are we calling a "real name"? Something that > looks like a "person name"? It can be a fake... > I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough, of course, I didn't mean to force anybody to do anything, I would just explain that it is a virtue and that we would prefer if contributors gave us their real names. And of course, I wouldn't remove any of those who don't want to do so or just don't reply, just the bouncing entries. > This seems like a useful thing to do, and a small chunk of work for > someone with a bit of spare time. If you feel like doing it then > that's fine. Otherwise, just let me know and I'll do it. I'm willing to do it but unfortunately I don't have time to do it until the end of the next week (SoC + university exams). If you feel like doing it and you have some spare time, I'd be grateful to you if you did it. I just explained above how I imagined it, i.e. no forcing, just telling the preference and the advantages of being listed with the real name. I hope this doesn't seem offending to anyone. -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org
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