On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 16:09 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 15:39 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 15:32 -0300, Steven Garrity wrote:
Matthias Clasen wrote:
Comments are welcome. Please note the section on target audience and use cases.
Maybe even auto-generate the Short Name if the field is empty when Name is entered? Turn "Ed Jones" into "edjones", etc.?
It's already in the design document, at the bottom of page 3:
"The tool then generates a Unix username from the full name and prefills the Short Name field. There was some idea to define a set of rules for this (e.g. Matthias Clasen→mclasen or Jon McCann→jonm) and update the currently used rule based on the corrections that are made to the pregenerated username."
Umm, is the above really a problem we need to solve? Is there a great problem with people being able to create usernames?
There is no problem being solved here, just a tiny bit of smart convenience added. You can still specify a username yourself if you like.