Hello, On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 12:23:02PM GMT, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 02:09:42AM -0400, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > > > address. I believe that saying this person has contributed to bts (or > > mailing > > list, or whatever) from date X to date Y is enough, regardless which email > > (or > > which other identifier) was used. > > I agree in terms of user story, and I find it hard to do given the data > model. > > The problem that I see is that we have multiple identities which have an > email (that we hide) and a full name (that we show), that are distinct > identities until someone goes and claims them to the same user. > > Until the association is done manually, my understanding is that we have > no way of knowing that those identities belong to the same person, even > if the full name matches (we have had distinct people with the same full > name in Debian before). > > This however might not be relating to the problem that you are > reporting, because they are emails that Abhijith PA has already claimed > to a single user.
Yes, I was thinking of already associated identifiers only. > In which case, the problem is only when someone not > logged in goes to look at the person's page, finding 4 entries as poster > with hidden email. I would assume that with the person logged in the > ambiguity disappears, as they're able to see the emails and so see how > the entries are distinct. > > I guess this would mean special casing the contributor page to aggregate > contributions regardless of identifiers for the case when the visitor > has no rights to see the actual identifiers. Yes! > It sounds like a good idea! Thanks for the input. Willing to looking into that soon. Bests, -- Tiago
