cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors contrib.additional.sgml

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 2 21:12:07 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:51:52PM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> 
> > 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.
>
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Thanks for the clarification, I now totally agree with your proposition.

-- 
Marc


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