Eric S. Raymond wrote on Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 10:46:28 -0500: > Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org>: > > In fact, I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario in which identity > > / contact information is interesting enough to want to publish via the > > repository, yet not interesting enough to want to know before giving > > someone commit access. > > Those aren't necessarily the *same* piece of information. In particular, > it is entirely possible that a user might want a different form of his name > and/or a different email address in his attribution cookie than he used > in his authentication for initially joining or signing in. I've seen > cases of this.
So store two fullnames instead of just one --- ASF does this, for exactly the reason you give.
