On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 13:32:46 +0200
Tomas Glozar [off-list ref] wrote:

Is this really still the case? Note that the document says:

"using a known identity (sorry, no anonymous contributions.)"

It really used to say "real name", but it was changed by Linus in 2023
[1]. Note especially this section by Linus:

" It was 2006, and nobody reacted to the wording, the whole Facebook 'real
   name' controversy was a decade in the future, and nobody even thought
   about it.  And despite the language, we've always accepted nicknames and
   that language was never meant to be any kind of exclusionary wording."

The wording sounds quite clear to me. And I'm certain that there were
contributions under pseudonymous identity that have been accepted
since then, most famously by Asahi Lina, a vtuber persona [2]. I don't
really see a difference between that and "unknownbbqrx", other than
the latter doesn't sound like a real name.

It specifically says "using a known identity (sorry, no anonymous contributions.)"

As you said, Asahi Lina is well known and a very "known identity".
"unknownbbqrx" is unknown and even states it in the name.

I will not personally accept such a submission, as the Signed-off-by is
a legal statement that states you have the right to submit that code
and take all responsibility for it.

-- Steve