Really I do not understand

'stephaneducasse' and gorankrampe' are unique and intention revealing.
Why are we using concepts of another times.
I guess that you name well your methods and your variable not just x  
w r t
so really I do not understand. Trading readability for the sake of I  
do not what benefit
is really doubtful for me.

When I have a file on my disc and working at home without network  
connexion
(Yes when you see me replying to emails late this is that I'm still  
in my office), then
I do not have SM present. I do not have problem that people register  
to SM
to build a map I have a problem to use poor information.

People out there can really laugh at us and they would be right. What  
a ridiculous
code annotation than three non readable characters. May be we can use  
our ICQ number
because it is also unique but incredibily unreadable. Can we have a  
chance to
increase the level here!

Stef



> Hi Stephane!
>
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?st=E9phane_ducasse?= <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
>
>> Are you joking? in 2005 playing with 2 characters instead of 15 does
>> not make sense.
>>
>
> Stephane, please don't be sarcastic with me. No, I am not joking.
>
>
>> Why people should get a account on Squeakmap to use MC? or Squeak?
>> I think that this does not make sense.
>>
>
> It does make sense and on the Swiki we have had a pointer to SM ever
> since SM2 came about so that people register there instead of  
> typing in
> their initials in a Swiki page.
>
> Now, the user name on SM doubles as developer initials. If you  
> register
> there then you are sure that those initials are *yours* to use,  
> because
> they need to be unique.
>
> The whole point with the developer initials is that we can absolutely
> for sure know who wrote what. So it is vitally important that the
> developer initials field can be used to identify the person
> unambiguously.
>
>
>>>>> Yes. I totally agree with you.
>>>>> The community is enough big that we easily find other developers
>>>>> with
>>>>> the same initials.
>>>>>
>
> Yes, but then people will just have to find a variation on the  
> initials
> that is unique. The whole grand point with having a central place  
> where
> we register the initials and make sure they are unique *and* map  
> them to
> a name and an email is precisely the fact that we then can use those
> initials as a key.
>
>
>>>> 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.
>>
>
> Hehe, no - you should not stop harvesting, but I would be grateful  
> if we
> stick to the idea of using SM as the map of Squeak as it is intended.
>
> If we don't make sure people register we:
>
> 1. Risk duplicates of dev initials. Yes, there might very well be more
> than one David Smith, especially if that person just types in  
> "David S"
> etc. And from image to image David might even type in slightly
> differently causing even more confusion.
>
> 2. Do not know who has which initials.
>
> Now, if you want MC to have a free form field with a name just like
> ChangeSets typically have - fine with me. But let us please use dev
> initials as the unique key it is.
>
> regards, Göran
>
> PS. Soon it is time to clean up SM, lots of bogus looking accounts  
> there
> now.
>
>