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----- Original Message ---- > From: Greg Stein <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, June 30, 2011 12:08:43 PM > Subject: Re: Why "list of preferred userids" ? > > 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 > >> >
