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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Scanner: mx10.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -4.82 X-Spam-Score: -4.82 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 54C149C6A X-TUID: +0cAv1+wJrO6 Hi all , thank you MSavoritias for bringing up points that many of us share. It's clearly a tradeoff what to do about the past. For the future, as Christpher already stated, we need a serious solution that we can uphold as a free software project that does not alienate users or contributors. My opinion is that names are just wrong to be included, not only because of deadnames, but in general having a database with a column first_name and a column second_name is something only a 35 yrs old white cis boy could have thought was a good idea to model the spectrum of names humans use all over the world: https://web.archive.org/web/20240317114846/https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ If we'd really need to identify contributors, and obviously Guix doesn't, we could use an UUID/machine readable identifier which can then be mapped to a displayed name. I believe git can already be configured to do so. giacomo