On 08/05/2010 06:34, 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 hope they can be set separately for those of us whose initials collide 
(I use dkb because db was already taken on squeaksource, I don't have a 
middle name at all)