Re: Using nicknames on planet?

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:55 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> I asked planet team to change "Hubert Lubaczewski" into "depesz" on
> planet.postgresql.org, but was told that current policy doesn't allow
> it, but it can be discussed. So I'd like to discuss possibility to
> change the policy.

Given that planet.postgresql.org is being synced to www.postgresql.org,
I am (still) against adding nicknames instead of real names.

If we allow nicknames, then we will need to figure out a policy of what
nicknames should be used or not, to prevent people using abusing
nicknames.

> Given the fact that on irc it is not very common to use full names - I
> would say that it makes sense to allow same nicknames on planet - at
> the very least to allow newcomers easily associate person from irc
> with author on planet.

I don't care about IRC, as long as logs are not synced to our main
website. IRC and Planet are not the same thing.

(and .../me uses realname in IRC.)
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