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Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.0 Subject: Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive Content-Language: en-US To: paul , guix-devel@gnu.org References: <87il1mupco.fsf@meson> <6f47e0b6-2045-ae2d-379c-1b8dd8c3b39a@fannys.me> <01dfe161-3ece-3f5c-6b33-1012190fb6dd@autistici.org> From: MSavoritias In-Reply-To: <01dfe161-3ece-3f5c-6b33-1012190fb6dd@autistici.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Last-TLS-Session-Version: TLSv1.3 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=81.95.52.48; envelope-from=email@msavoritias.me; helo=mail.webarch.email X-Spam_score_int: -46 X-Spam_score: -4.7 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_INVALID=0.1, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, NICE_REPLY_A=-2.944, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guix-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." 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-Spam-Score: -3.31 X-Spam-Score: -3.31 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 243AC5434F X-Migadu-Scanner: mx13.migadu.com X-TUID: de5d/yZtYYWr On 3/17/24 13:53, paul wrote: > 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 > > The uuid sounds like a very interesting solution indeed. I wonder how easy it could be to add it to git. I agree that making some rules about names that are going to be wrong at some point or in some place is the wrong solution long term for sure. MSavoritias