[Labs-l] Renaming labs/gerrit users

[Chad Horohoe]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Faidon Liambotis <faidon at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> As we were saying yesterday on IRC, I'm also of the opinion that using my
> full name in places were I'm requested for my "username" (like Gerrit or
> RT) feels unnatural to me and may be one of the sources of this confusion.
> I can see the point that this is how MediaWiki does it, though, and
> matching other webapps with MediaWiki rather than SSH account names (=
> "uid" field) might be more consistent. Thoughts?
>

This. The less usernames you have to remember the better. Consistently
using cn/uid for web/shell respectively will help alleviate confusion.

-Chad
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