Hello.
May I request a bit of help here? In IRC, mneptok advised me to write to
this e-mail account about my problem registering my new Git account with
Mango.
Please see below the conversation for more information. Thanks in advance.
<knocte> hello, I think mango (
https://mango.gnome.org/new_account.php
) is not working for me, anyone who could help?
<mneptok> could you be more specific than "not working?"
<knocte> mneptok: yes, when I submit the form the word UserName
is
highlighted in red, and I see a text at the top that says "Note: Please
read the following page first: http://live.gnome.org/NewAccounts.";, yet
it doesn't tell me what's wrong with the username, and I've already read
that page
<mneptok> what are you putting as a username?
<knocte> I guess that the form validation code is wrong, it may
be
refusing usernames with length == 10, when the rule is to be 10 as
maximum, so > 10 should be the forbidden
<knocte> my lastname: aragoneses
<mneptok> no diacriticals?
<knocte> mneptok: no
<knocte> I'm trying to look at mango's sources but I don't find
the
line where it validates the username.. :/
<mneptok> knocte: do you have an existing GNOME account for
CVS/SVN/git, an e-mail alias, etc?
<knocte> mneptok: I guess not, but I have the impression that my
patches have been committed by the maintainers using the "knocte"
username, can you check if that's relevant?
<knocte> my email is knocte at gmail dot com
<mneptok> i think what is causing it then is the use of the last
name
alone. we prefer something more uniquely identifiable.
<knocte> thing is, my lastname is already the maximum number of
characters
<knocte> when I worked for novell, my username in the mono repo
was
"aaragoneses"
<knocte> but that is 11
<knocte> and that is way too ugly (two 'a' at the beginning)
<mneptok> right, so maybe "aaragon" or something?
<knocte> huh, I don't know
<knocte> is it really a problem to just have aragoneses? it's a
pretty
uncommon lastname
<mneptok> not a call i'm willing to make on my own
<knocte> (even in my country)
<knocte> mneptok: who should we talk with then?
<mneptok> knocte: gnome-infrastructure@
<mneptok> knocte: but i'm not really sure this rises to the level
of
needing the sysadmin team to review the request. is an alternate
username really that big of an issue?
<knocte> mneptok: I would definitely prefer to have less
different
usernames in my head, it really helps also to be able to have your
source code/patches identified by a single username to improve googability
<knocte> if I cannot get "knocte" as my username, I want to
definitely
try at least with my lastname
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