Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] exec: fix breakpoint_invalidate() breakage

[Stefan Weil]

Am 24.05.2012 15:35, schrieb Andreas Färber:

Am 24.05.2012 04:12, schrieb TeLeMan:

I won't use
my Chinese name because I think it's my privacy.

That exactly is touching the core point: Signed-off-by is about
transparency and taking responsibility for your actions, not hiding in
anonymity. It's a certification of whom the code came from and who would
be to blame if anything was wrong with that (think non-GPL-compatible
code taken from somewhere else).

Why should you be granted more privacy than us just because your name is
Chinese? There's quite a few Chinese IBM guys around that don't seem to
have any problem with this, and git would even handle UTF-8 characters
quite well if desired[*].

Andreas


[*] For example,

commit e965fc380703110e967febf8d5b2ecd7db53b5d2
Author: 陳韋任 <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Feb 6 14:02:55 2012 +0800

    cpu-exec.c: Correct comment about this file and indentation cleanup

    Each target uses the #define macro (in target-xxx/cpu.h) to rename
    cpu_exec (cpu-exec.c) to cpu_xxx_exec, then defines its own cpu_loop
    which calls cpu_xxx_exec. So basically, cpu-exec.c is not only the i386
    emulator main execution loop. This patch corrects the comment of this
    file and does indentation cleanup.

    Signed-off-by: Chen Wei-Ren (陳韋任) <address@hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>

This discussion looks strange for me.

If someone contributes to QEMU not only with patches but also
on qemu-devel and in other forms since a long time, I appreciate
his/her contributions, no matter what his/her name is.

Names are not absolute. There are cultural differences with regard
to names and their meaning - just think of the way names change
when someone gets married.

There are a lot of good and acceptable reasons why someone chooses
to use a nickname or a pseudonym.

If we strictly enforce real names, some people would simply choose

a pseudonym. Maybe others would stop contributing.

Therefore I suggest a pragmatical approach: if someone contributes
for the first time using a nickname, it is good practice to tell that person
that a real name is wanted. I would not insist on a real name,
because there is no way to verify it, but verify such patches more
carefully.

When people contribute using a nick name for a long time,
that nick _is_ their name, and I know them by that name as I know
Andreas, Anthony or Avi. Blue and TeLeMan are well known names.

I did not review the patch, but if the code is ok, I suggest to
apply it.

Regards,

Stefan W.