From: Mike E. <pir...@nc...> - 2008-04-16 15:03:17
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John Reese wrote: (snip) > > As someone who was one among twelve John Reese's in the Cincinnati area > alone, I find it absurd to assume there won't be overlap in users' real > names. I agree with Giallu that if there's one thing that we should > enforce uniqueness upon, it should be the email address. Perhaps what > we should do instead is display users' usernames, with their real names > in parentheses, or vice versa. I don't agree with enforcing uniqueness on E-mail addresses. I'm both the Mantis administrator and the QA manager. My workflow is very role-specific, and I did NOT want to have any overlap between my role as administrator and my role as QA manager. The simplest solution was to create two accounts for myself, one for Mantis administration and one for QA-related activities. Since I only have one work-related E-mail address, these are both pointed to the same E-mail. The value of Mantis is that it is by far the most flexible and easy-to-implement system out there - that's why we're using it. Restricting that flexibility, in my view, would limit Mantis's utility going forward. Enforcing uniqueness on user IDs, I think, addresses the concerns that most people have without placing restrictions on those of us who appreciate Mantis's configurability. I'd rather see efforts placed on making Mantis *more* flexible, not less. -- Mike Emeigh pir...@nc... "Quantification automatically privileges people who are fond of numbers and marginalizes people who are math phobic." -- James Bach |