Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> Hi Lenya devs,
> 
> the question is about determining the name of the author of a document,
> e.g. for inclusion in RSS feeds.
> 
> At the moment, the user ID is stored in the dc:creator meta data field.
> This allows to determine the full name, but only if the user still
> exists. If the user has been deleted from the system, there is no way to
> find out her name.
> 
> IMO we have to store both values, the user ID of the original creator
> (for internal purposes) and the full name (to be displayed). IMO the
> dc:creator field should contain the full name to make rendering as
> straightforward as possible. That would mean we'd have to introduce a
> new field for the user ID of the creator, probably as part of the
> http://apache.org/lenya/metadata/document/1.0 meta data.

+1


-- 
Jörn Nettingsmeier

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.

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