On 21 January 2011 20:48, Miguel Cobá <miguel.coba@gmail.com> wrote:
This thing of the initial is really upsetting.
I know that is old history and that even tools were made (monticello) relying on them (even without specifying an accepted format, creating more confusion) but I think that enough is enough.
So, monticello hasn't a format for the filenames of the packages, at least one that avoid problems due to initials, fullnames or whatever string that the user happen to write in their image.
For Igor, the problem is that he writes his name as Igor.Stasenko. That chokes monticello and gofer and whatnot.
I can tell you more. I am specifically using this name, because: when system asked me to enter initials, it wasn't warned me that my name is wrong or refused to use it and from that point, when something doesn't works because of my initials, this is NOT my fault. This is a fault of those tools, which put too much assumptions about what user could enter into text field when asked. So, lets fix the tools, instead of arguing , what convention should be. There should not be any convention about what i can use as my user name. I can choose to use Egyptian glyphs for initials. And don't force me to follow some scheme if its not necessary.
Why don't we use the git way and let the user write two things, an email and a free user name. And then sign the monticello packages with email and in a meta-info inside the mcz (or in the commit info/message) use the full name?
What do you think? What it would break with a change like this?
Cheers
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.