On 17 May 2016 at 23:08, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 5/17/16 12:39 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: >> >> On 14 May 2016 at 03:18, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d >> <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 5/13/16 1:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I'll ask again that the active Github users use their own name, and add >>>> to that if you could have a selfie as your github image. >>> >>> >>> >>> Sorry, this isn't going to happen :) @schveiguy is much better than >>> @StevenSchveighoffer. Some of us are not so short-name-blessed. I >>> actually >>> don't mind if people call me schveiguy! >> >> >> You know that github has separate records for your handle and your >> name...? Both are presented on github. >> > > Yes, I know. And to make matters worse, when I get github emails, the full > name is used, but when I look at the PR comments, only the handle appears. > So it's not always obvious the mapping between the two. > > It's unclear whether the request from Walter was for handles or names (his > full name is used for both).
Right. It seems unreasonable to ask people to change their handles. In most cases, people have been using the same handle for decades...
