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Bug#657647: marked as done (/devel/people should be improved, e.g. with UDD)

Your message dated Thu, 18 Jul 2019 04:26:02 +0200
with message-id <23855.55482.935993.251923@informatik.uni-koeln.de>
and subject line /devel/people finally removed
has caused the Debian Bug report #657647,
regarding /devel/people should be improved, e.g. with UDD
to be marked as done.

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Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal

The list of people listed on http://www.debian.org/devel/people contains many
wrong names, and judging from https://paste.debian.net/153813/, the script that
generates the page contains a pile of hacks for names that are wrongly parsed.

The page assumes that all names can be split into first and last names, but that
is not the case for eastern names which have a different name order. Attempting
to parse names of maintainers from the full display form also results in wrongly
mangling team names. Take for example:
 * Chow Loong Jin (surname = Chow, given name = Loong Jin) which generated two
   entries, both of which were wrong:
   - Chow, Loong Jin
   - Jin, Chow Loong
 * Hardening, Packages
 * Desktop, Debian maintenance of the Gnome Online

Given the complexity involved in parsing a name from its full displayed form, it
is most probably a better idea to drop the name parsing altogether and just
display it verbatim from the Maintainer field.

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We removed all links to /devel/people as this page is not created any more.
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regards Thomas

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