I think the filename needs to be based on the unique account name, with any
periods (.) replaced by underscore (_).
The display names can change weekly, and as you note it would be much more
difficult to track based on display name.
Q
On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote:
> On 2010-11-08 11:10, Sarah (Esbee) Kuehnle wrote:
>>
>> Thanks again for all your feedback. I've made some updates to the design
>> deck (see attached).
>>
>> I'm going to create subtasks underneath STORM-31 for the new preferences and
>> get these updates rolling with the team! :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Esbee
>>
>> PS - Please feel free to keep feedback coming
>
> On the Privacy tab, you ask "Is this a timestamp in the log or in the
> filename?"... I think that once we've integrated STORM-102 (a final test
> build for that is running now), we'll actually have two checkboxes there. A
> new test build for that is available now (fresh off the server) at [1].
> Add timestamp
> Add datestamp to log file name
> The first one controls whether or not lines in the log file have timestamps
> on them, and the second appends a datestamp:
> For person-to-person chat, the datestamp is YYYY-MM (year and month)
> For local chat, the datestamp is YYYY-MM-DD (year month and day)
> One issue on STORM-102 that probably needs discussing... the present
> person-to-person chat log file name is
> First Last[-datestamp].txt
> where First and Last are the real account names. If a person has a Display
> Name set, that name is not used when constructing the file name: instead the
> real first and last names for the account are used for the log file name.
> The Display name does appear (followed by the userid "first.last" in parens)
> in the log text content. This seems potentially confusing to me, especially
> if the only name I ever use for someone is the Display Name. It seems to me
> that either:
> the Display Name should be used (if I remember talking to "Joe Somebody",
> that's the log file name I'd be most likely to look for), which would mean
> that each DN value would produce a separate log even if I had conversations
> with the same user with different DNs,
> or the userid (first.last) should always be used for the log file name.
> [1]
> http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/oz_viewer-storm-102/rev/214097/index.html
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