[Labs-l] Renaming labs/gerrit users

[Ryan Lane]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf at free.fr> wrote:

> Le 27/08/13 21:20, Chad Horohoe a écrit :
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > It's been a long-standing request for people to want to rename their
> > login/display name
> > in Labs/Gerrit. I'm happy to say that Ryan and I finally tested the
> > process today and
> > documented it[0].
> >
> > We'd like to script this up, but we at least know it works so we can
> > start honoring requests
> > for renames. Feel free to bug me or Ryan on IRC if you'd like this done.
> >
> > -Chad
> >
> > [0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Renaming_users
>
>
> It has always puzzled me that Gerrit merge my commits with 'Hashar'
> instead of 'Antoine Musso' :-]
>
> The procedure described above would apparently rename my account from
> 'Hashar' to 'Antoine Musso'. For display purposes, cant we use a real
> name field in LDAP ?
>
>
Not without having 3 unique attributes, which is incredibly painful. If you
want your git username to be your full name, then use your fullname as your
wikitech/gerrit username.

- Ryan
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