We had a discussion about a process to change your name within LLVM. I went through this myself earlier this year and took the following steps:
- I changed which GitHub account I had associated with LLVM. I made this change by emailing Chris Lattner and asking for the change.
- I created new Discourse and Discord accounts under my new name.
- We do have a mailmap in the llvm-project repository, if I had made more substantial contributions to LLVM under my old username I would consider checking in an entry to that to allow folks to find those old ones.
We talked about documenting this so that others can follow along. I had considered documenting this back when I did it, but didn’t feel there was enough here for it to be useful. Also, I think for folks who have greater contributions under their old name, creating new accounts wouldn’t be the right option for them.