User WikiNames and FAS

[Ricky Zhou]

A thought about FAS2 and wiki integration:

Since wiki editing is tied in with FAS2 and CLA signing, it'd be nice to
integrate them nicely (click-through CLAs are already implemented in
FAS2), but one annoyance is that WikiNames do not generally match usernames.  
Other than for (weakly) connecting wiki usernames to FAS users, is there
any particular reason that we're going with the FirstnameLastname
convention?  Would it somehow be "bad" for users to have the same
username for FAS and the wiki in the future?  

Thanks,
Ricky

[Rahul Sundaram]

Ricky Zhou wrote:
>  A thought about FAS2 and wiki integration:
>  
>  Since wiki editing is tied in with FAS2 and CLA signing, it'd be nice to
>  integrate them nicely (click-through CLAs are already implemented in
>  FAS2), but one annoyance is that WikiNames do not generally match usernames.  
>  Other than for (weakly) connecting wiki usernames to FAS users, is there
>  any particular reason that we're going with the FirstnameLastname
>  convention?  Would it somehow be "bad" for users to have the same
>  username for FAS and the wiki in the future?   
Wiki linking is much easier with the current convention in the wiki. 
Having the actual name also is more transparent.

Rahul

[Seth Vidal]

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 01:52 -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote:
>  A thought about FAS2 and wiki integration:
>  
>  Since wiki editing is tied in with FAS2 and CLA signing, it'd be nice to
>  integrate them nicely (click-through CLAs are already implemented in
>  FAS2), but one annoyance is that WikiNames do not generally match usernames.  
>  Other than for (weakly) connecting wiki usernames to FAS users, is there
>  any particular reason that we're going with the FirstnameLastname
>  convention?  Would it somehow be "bad" for users to have the same
>  username for FAS and the wiki in the future?   
the wiki predates fas being used for authenticating stuff. So it's not
on purpose that it has been done that way.

I think changing it out so that everything uses the FAS username would
be good.

-sv