User WikiNames and FAS

[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