Hi steph !

This issue was already discussed here :
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-January/072936.html

I agree with you, but I think we don't need to ask for an agreement :
just replace your initials sd by 'StephaneDucasse'. Then you can use
the "ENH - Giving Information" browser addon to have further
information... as email, web, name, and so one... There could be a
problem when two people has the same name/initials, as
'DavidSmith'. So we should enhance the way we tackle this story of
initials/name.

Some people wants initials and other wants something more explicit. I
think that the economic way is to choose by default something like
'DavidSmith' which is more explicit than 'ds' : 'StephaneDucasse'
encodes more information than 'sd', and we don't need to make a
connection to SqueakMap to know the name : so it is economic. 

But when we enter for the first time the name or initials, squeak must
ask to squeakmap if this name is already in use, so the second David
Smith must choose another name, like 'David Smith bis' or something
like that... To add in the TODO list !

Cheers,
Samir

stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> writes:

> Are you joking? in 2005 playing with 2 characters instead of 15 does
> not make sense.
> Why people should get a account on Squeakmap to use MC? or Squeak?
> I think that this does not make sense.
>
>>>> Yes. I totally agree with you.
>>>> The community is enough big that we easily find other developers
>>>> with
>>>> the same initials.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I *don't* agree - just use SM instead! The initials are ensured to be
>>> unique on SM and looking up a name is trivial - just add some code to
>>> the tools that do this:
>
> I'm not hacking the tools. I'm reviewing code that should be
> published or
> not and I'm reading initials and I do not know what are these persons.
> So may be I should stop harvesting after all.
>
>>>
>>>     (SMSqueakMap default accountForUsername: 'gk') name
>>>
>>>     (SMSqueakMap default accountForUsername: 'gk') email
>>>
>>> ...and you get the email too.
>>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
>>