Re: english/devel/people.names
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 05:46:26PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>
> The script that does the english/devel/people.names does take the
> surename of the developer as <a name=""> tag. Wouldn't it be much
> better to use the login of the person, for several reasons? The login
> is known to be unique - the surname must not. We might be happy to not
> have been hitten by that yet but it might happen.
>
> I can't estimate what the impact by this change might be. But
> personally I could sleep better with knowing that the page won't produce
> any problems in the future than rather not doing it because we fear of
> some flaming to that respect.
>
The login is unique, but not what people know. Also, there are packages
maintained by groups that have no account. Their 'name' is something
obnoxious like 'QA testing'.
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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