Why don't we just say [a-z0-9]+ ?
On Jun 30, 2011 11:09 AM, "Joe Schaefer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>
