Enforce real name
fwolter opened this issue · 4 comments
We have many PRs from users using their GitHub username in the author field.
Is there a way to enforce usage of the real name in the author field? E.g. by checking for a space. This check would have worked for every sign-off with a non-real name I saw until now.
I'm sorry I'm not sure what you are asking, could you elaborate?
The name is defined in the user's profile. If they don't provide their full name their, there is no way for others to enforce it. Or would you like to enforce it as part of the DCO CI check run? If so, what benefit would that bring?
We require real names in the sign-off message. So, if the user uses his/her GitHub username in the sign-off message, the automatically run DCO check on PRs turns green, although it's not compliant to our coding guidelines. If I see correctly the author and email address in the sign-off message and in the commit are not set by GitHub, but by the user in his/her Git client. So, it's in the user's hand to use a pseudonym or the real name. I'd like to be able to enforce the real name.
I see. I'm sorry but out of respect of people's privacy, this is not a feature I'd like to add to DCO because of the harm it could cause. I'd recommend to fork the repository and deploy your own version of DCO with these features, they are out of scope for us