Taking the Eudyptula Challenge

> The only pseudonym in play here is for whoever is running the Challenge.

And this is the one my comment was referring to.

For me running such challenge is a form of contribution to an open source project. And I found it astonishing that this contribution is not made under the contributor's real name.

> Actually there is that requirement when signing off on a patch, so
> participants in the Challenge will need to use their real name
> when submitting patches.

Yeah, I didn't refer to participants of the challenge, but to code contributors in general, not necessarily only the Linux kernel. I erroneously thought nobody really requires contributors to state their real name, it's just a common practice to do so. Now I checked the facts and the Linux kernel community rules actually require everybody to do so, although they don't enforce it by requiring a digital signature as e.g. in Debian upload. (of course these are different processes, and I'm not saying they should enforce, just illustrating the difference)

> then you just add a line saying
>
> Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
>
> using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)

(quoted from https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches)