Re: Patch author name on commitfest page

On 09/30/2010 05:51 PM, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Gurjeet Singh
> <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
> > Can we please change the comment lines below the patch heading
> to have the
> > real name instead of the postgresql.org <http://postgresql.org> ID?
> >
> > Patch by Pavel Stehule
> > Patch by Gurjeet Singh
> >
> > instead of
> >
> > Patch by okbobcz
> > Patch by singh.gurjeet
> >
> > https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=8
>
> I don't think that information is available to the app, at least at
> present... when you log in, it is empowered to ask the community login
> DB "is this combination of a username and a password valid?" but all
> it gets back is "yes" or "no".
>
>
> If you click on the patch title on that page, it takes you to patch
> details page, where the real author name seems to be available to the app.
>
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=393
>
>

That's because there is a field to set the author's name. See
<https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_form?commitfest=7>

At the same time, I should have though allowing the Commitfest app
access to the user's actual name would be acceptable.

cheers

andrew