Basically it gives root@ an opportunity to select a different id if the first one contains non-alphanumeric chars.
Nowadays if people look over the list of existing ids and present just one that's unique, but "similar" to the rest of the list in terms of charsets used, that is sufficient. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Rob Weir <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, June 30, 2011 11:03:30 AM > Subject: Why "list of preferred userids" ? > > When we process new committers, we're asking them for a "list of > preferred userids"? Why is that so? Is that just in case there is a > conflict? (But that should be trivial to prevent by having them look > at the list of Apache ID's initially). Or are they set up with userid > aliases? > > -Rob >
