On 07.05.2010, at 22:34, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> On 5/7/2010 9:50 PM, Ian Trudel wrote:
>> 2010/5/8 Andreas Raab<andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
>>> The only downside I can see is for people whose initials aren't actually
>>> derived from their name, for example Nicoloas uses "nice" instead of "nc".
>>> 
>>> What do people think? Is this change worth it?
>> 
>> I like this change because it brings clarity on authorship and makes
>> it easier to track changes by authors; author names that can be found
>> on the mailing list. Good. By the way, wouldn't it be possible to have
>> a preference for those who do not want to derive their initials from
>> their names? It does not matter much to me since I use my initials.
> 
> Oh, I should have mentioned that with the current implementation the initials will only be derived if there is more than one word in the author name. For example "Joe B. Sixpack" -> "jbs" but "joebe" -> "joebe". In other words one can continue to use just the initials for the author name. It's a bit of a hack, but hey...

I agree that having the full name in the history is good, but deriving the initials is not necessary for that. Squeak traditionally supports both already. E.g., when you add the preamble for a ChangeSet, the system asks for your author name. When you accept a method, only your initials are requested. I think that could work for Monticello as well.

- Bert -