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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by Rob Weir <ap...@robweir.com> on 2011/06/30 17:03:30 UTC
Why "list of preferred userids" ?
When we process new committers, we're asking them for a "list of
preferred userids"? Why is that so? Is that just in case there is a
conflict? (But that should be trivial to prevent by having them look
at the list of Apache ID's initially). Or are they set up with userid
aliases?
-Rob
Re: Why "list of preferred userids" ?
Posted by Joe Schaefer <jo...@yahoo.com>.
Patches welcome d00d.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Greg Stein <gs...@gmail.com>
> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Thu, June 30, 2011 12:08:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Why "list of preferred userids" ?
>
> Why don't we just say [a-z0-9]+ ?
> On Jun 30, 2011 11:09 AM, "Joe Schaefer" <jo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Basically it gives root@ an opportunity to select a different id
> > if the first one contains non-alphanumeric chars.
> >
> >
> > Nowadays if people look over the list of existing ids and present
> > just one that's unique, but "similar" to the rest of the list in terms
> > of charsets used, that is sufficient.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> >> From: Rob Weir <ap...@robweir.com>
> >> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> >> Sent: Thu, June 30, 2011 11:03:30 AM
> >> Subject: Why "list of preferred userids" ?
> >>
> >> When we process new committers, we're asking them for a "list of
> >> preferred userids"? Why is that so? Is that just in case there is a
> >> conflict? (But that should be trivial to prevent by having them look
> >> at the list of Apache ID's initially). Or are they set up with userid
> >> aliases?
> >>
> >> -Rob
> >>
>
Re: Why "list of preferred userids" ?
Posted by Greg Stein <gs...@gmail.com>.
Why don't we just say [a-z0-9]+ ?
On Jun 30, 2011 11:09 AM, "Joe Schaefer" <jo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Basically it gives root@ an opportunity to select a different id
> if the first one contains non-alphanumeric chars.
>
>
> Nowadays if people look over the list of existing ids and present
> just one that's unique, but "similar" to the rest of the list in terms
> of charsets used, that is sufficient.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Rob Weir <ap...@robweir.com>
>> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Sent: Thu, June 30, 2011 11:03:30 AM
>> Subject: Why "list of preferred userids" ?
>>
>> When we process new committers, we're asking them for a "list of
>> preferred userids"? Why is that so? Is that just in case there is a
>> conflict? (But that should be trivial to prevent by having them look
>> at the list of Apache ID's initially). Or are they set up with userid
>> aliases?
>>
>> -Rob
>>
Re: Why "list of preferred userids" ?
Posted by Joe Schaefer <jo...@yahoo.com>.
Basically it gives root@ an opportunity to select a different id
if the first one contains non-alphanumeric chars.
Nowadays if people look over the list of existing ids and present
just one that's unique, but "similar" to the rest of the list in terms
of charsets used, that is sufficient.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Rob Weir <ap...@robweir.com>
> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Thu, June 30, 2011 11:03:30 AM
> Subject: Why "list of preferred userids" ?
>
> When we process new committers, we're asking them for a "list of
> preferred userids"? Why is that so? Is that just in case there is a
> conflict? (But that should be trivial to prevent by having them look
> at the list of Apache ID's initially). Or are they set up with userid
> aliases?
>
> -Rob
>