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doc: clarify real name requirement in CONTRIBUTING.md #1250

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This should hopefully make it more clear that git's user.name should be set to the real name before committing a pull request. I'm open to suggestions of witty placeholder names ;)

related: #1246
cc: @MayhemYDG

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👍

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LGTM

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I think this is a pretty straightforward improvement, going to merge it in right ahead.

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CONTRIBUTING.md didn't make our rule for requiring real names from
contributors clear enough. This commit shall clarify that part.

Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <[email protected]>
PR-URL: #1250
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merged in 4e9bf93

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rvagg commented Mar 25, 2015

Actually I'm -1 on this, it's not straight forward, some people prefer to use pseudonyms and there's no reason to force a real name out of these people, this change could be interpreted as policy.

See #606 for an example for this.

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Ah, I was under the impression it was a hard rule as I was requested to change my user.name on my first contribution (#483 (comment)). If this is a remnant from node.js days, I'm all for dropping it.

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@rvagg should this be reverted?

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Please. Real names are slippery beasts and I really don't want to use the one that is still my legal name. There is no reason to.

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