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...

Cheers,
   - Andreas