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SourceHut staff here. We don't have any requirement for "real legal" names or anything -- and in fact I find these requirements very harmful in general (glad we

SourceHut staff here. We don't have any requirement for "real legal" names or anything -- and in fact I find these requirements very harmful in general (glad we finally got rid of them in the kernel). I know multiple people collaborating on SourceHut with a pseudonym and this causes no issue at all. SourceHut does assume a stable email address but that's about it. That's my own take -- for Drew's see https://drewdevault.com/2023/10/31/On-real-names.html https://drewdevault.com/2023/10/31/On-real-names.html

LoganDark 3y ago
It's not a requirement, but I heavily got the vibe that pseudonyms are not welcome. To quote Drew, "You should be using your real email address with the mailing lists, so that people can reach you and treat you as a human being, not as a proxy of one." I'm just not comfortable putting myself out there like that. I get it's not technically against the rules to do it differently, but it's just... frowned upon. Other justifications included that my peers would be sharing their real names and personal email addresses, so I'm being non-courteous by not doing the same... I dunno. It wasn't a particularly productive email chain, but it told me all I needed to know.
- morelisp 3y ago
  Pseudonyms are fine, hapaxnyms are what's cautioned against. Given that you use "Logan Dark" in several places surely you recognize why this is useful?
  - LoganDark 3y ago
    What is a "hapaxnym"? I can't find a definition or even any results for this word online. And it's not "Logan Dark", it's "LoganDark".
    - aleph_minus_one 3y ago
      > What is a "hapaxnym"? I can't find a definition or even any results for this word online. A portmanteau word of "hapax legomenon" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon) and "pseudonym", i.e. a pseudonym that is used nowhere else.

LoganDark 3y ago

It's not a requirement, but I heavily got the vibe that pseudonyms are not welcome. To quote Drew, "You should be using your real email address with the mailing lists, so that people can reach you and treat you as a human being, not as a proxy of one." I'm just not comfortable putting myself out there like that. I get it's not technically against the rules to do it differently, but it's just... frowned upon. Other justifications included that my peers would be sharing their real names and personal email addresses, so I'm being non-courteous by not doing the same... I dunno. It wasn't a particularly productive email chain, but it told me all I needed to know.

morelisp 3y ago
Pseudonyms are fine, hapaxnyms are what's cautioned against. Given that you use "Logan Dark" in several places surely you recognize why this is useful?
- LoganDark 3y ago
  What is a "hapaxnym"? I can't find a definition or even any results for this word online. And it's not "Logan Dark", it's "LoganDark".
  - aleph_minus_one 3y ago
    > What is a "hapaxnym"? I can't find a definition or even any results for this word online. A portmanteau word of "hapax legomenon" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon) and "pseudonym", i.e. a pseudonym that is used nowhere else.