Re: [Outreachy] Introduction (Ágatha)

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2025, 09:14 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD136SoQn-Tip_MQ4zxfs5a060MTOU_Hgj34ppjes+Rogw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Agatha,

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM Agatha <code@agatha.dev> wrote:

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> I think this would be of actual significance for several groups of
> individuals, especially for transgender software developers who face a
> lot of challenges to get in the tech industry, even when they have years
> of experience. While in some places linking their current names to their
> former names might even be dangerous, or at least lead to embarrassment,
> losing credit for their contributions to avoid exposing deadnames could
> also be a limiting factor towards obtaining employment in tech.
>
> I’d be happy to discuss whether similar ideas have been explored before,
> or hear pointers to related prior discussions.

One recent related discussion was about the following commit:

1f0fed312a (SubmittingPatches: allow non-real name contributions, 2025-07-16)

(See https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250706163009.335780-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net/#r)

I think there were previous related discussions about the mailmap file, but I don't remember about any specific one.

Thanks for your interest in contributing to Git.