From: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>,
"zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 fixes for v5.12
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:55:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210322085554.rlnehum5gklvjrzv@spock.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFgQqjkSmCmvZ7LK@mit.edu>
Hi.
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:36:10PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:05:13AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> > I think the legel name would be "Zhang Yi" (family name goes first [1])
> > according to
> > The Chinese phonetic alphabet spelling rules for Chinese names [2].
> >
> > Indeed, that is also what the legel name is written in alphabet on our
> > passport or credit/debit cards.
> >
> > Also, many official English-written materials use it in that way, for
> > example, a somewhat famous bastetball player Yao Ming [3][4][5].
> >
> > That is what I wrote my own name as this but I also noticed the western
> > ordering of names is quite common for Chinese people in Linux kernel.
> > Anyway, it's just my preliminary personal thought (might be just my
> > own perference) according to (I think, maybe) formal occasions.
>
> Yeah, there doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency with the ordering
> of Chinese names when they are written in Roman characters. Some
> people put the family name first, and other people will put the
> personal (first) name first. In some cases it may be because the
> developer in question is living in America, and so they've decided to
> use the American naming convention. (Two example of this are former
> ext4 developers Mingming Cao and Jiaying Zhang, who live in Portland
> and Los Angelos, and their family names are Cao and Zhang,
> respectively.)
>
> My personal opinion is people should use whatever name they are
> comfortable with, using whatever characters they prefer. The one
> thing that would be helpful for me is for people to give a hint about
> how they would prefer to be called --- for example, would you prefer
> that start an e-mail with the salutation, "Hi Gao", "Hi Xiang", or "Hi
> Gao Xiang"?
Is there a common way to indicate that? Like, erm, SPDX, but for names?
Saying, instead of just writing "Oleksandr Natalenko" in the email
footer, I'll write "Oleksandr Natalenko / RMNA:NS" meaning "read my name
as name-surname".
Hm?
>
> And if I don't know, and I guess wrong, please feel free to correct
> me, either privately, or publically on the e-mail list, if you think
> it would be helpful for more people to understand how you'd prefer to
> be called.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ted
--
Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-21 18:31 [GIT PULL] ext4 fixes for v5.12 Theodore Ts'o
2021-03-21 21:59 ` pr-tracker-bot
2021-03-21 22:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-22 1:33 ` zhangyi (F)
2021-03-22 3:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-03-22 12:10 ` Herbert Xu
2021-03-22 15:12 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-03-22 3:05 ` Gao Xiang
2021-03-22 3:36 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-03-22 3:47 ` Gao Xiang
2021-03-22 7:00 ` Zhang Yi
2021-03-22 8:55 ` Oleksandr Natalenko [this message]
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