[cosmo-dev] Whither usernames

[Ted Leung]

I just upgraded the severity and priority of these bugs to sev:major,  
P1.

On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Jared Rhine wrote:

> Chandler Hub users continue to have a fair bit of pain with  
> usernames, with a variety of punctuation and unicode.  People  
> generally get stuck because their email has already been entered  
> and they can't fix the problem themselves (and I'd note the admin  
> UI tends to break on these too).
>
> Searching for "username", I see four related bugs targeted to 0.11.
>
> #10733 Can't log in to hub -- problem with percent char in username?
> #11100 unicode characters in username cause login to fail
> #11101 unicode characters in username break admin ui
> #11175 : in username causes chaos
>
> I'd really like to get these resolved definitively in 0.11 or  
> alternatively, restrict in 0.11 the allowed characters in the  
> create account dialog as a temporary mitigation (that would be an  
> easy hack).
>
> I know username problems are on everyone's radar and we want to  
> make "everything except /" work, and 0.11 is a bug-fix release, so  
> there's consensus to fix these.  But I thought it would be helpful  
> to highlight this for 0.11 as it is causing a few problems a week  
> on Hub.  Anyone mind if I raise the "severity" of these so they  
> sort higher in the 0.11 list?
>
> -- Jared
>
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