Re: Patch author name on commitfest page

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 23:45, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can we please change the comment lines below the patch heading to have the
>>> real name instead of the 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".
>
> Sure it is. When you call community_login(), it'll return you the
> yes/no field, the full name, the email address, an author text (not
> used anymore, so don't rely on that), community docs superuser flag
> (also not used, don't rely on, kind of a failed experiment) and last
> successful login time prior to this one.
>
> It's quite possible all users haven't included their full name when
> they registered, but for those that have the information is available.

Hrm, so in theory I could maintain a (possible stale) cache of this
information.  Seems sort of hairy, though.

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