On Thu, 2026-06-04 at 08:54 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

On Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:42:02 +0200
Gabriele Monaco [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

All this to say that, in my opinion unknownbbqrx
[off-list ref]
is NOT an anonymous contribution, just a nickname that differs from
the legal name of this person (which we wouldn't validate anyway),
so I would say it complies with the rules.

It's a username on github and not a nickname. I did a search for
"unknownbbqr" and it doesn't come up anywhere but Google tries to
find similar matches which brings me to an OnlyFans account :-p

It *DOES NOT* qualify because there's no accountability for this. For
people who have a nickname as their entire internet persona, sure,
I'll take patches from them as there's an entity that exists behind
it.
But I'm not going to take some username on github as a persona. To
me, that's still anonymous.

Alright, fair. In the link I sent, the signoff got changed to Ali Ahmet
MEMIS [off-list ref], but I believe we cannot use that unless
the user themselves adds it (and they seem unreachable).

I posted the re-authored patch in [1], I'm not sure that's the proper
way though (the patch is so simple that is unmodified). But if you give
me a green light I can send you a pull request with that patch instead.

Thanks,
Gabriele

[1] -
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260604120946.90302-2-gmonaco@redhat.com/ (local)

-- Steve