discourse and usernames

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 21:10:53 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:

> in the bodega-server we auth with the email. I have written a patch which
> allows us
> to have as usernames the emails, basically I just changed the regular
> expression which
> validates the username I will try to get it merged in the discourse. If the
> patch goes in I guess problem solved but if it doesn't? Do we want another
> custom patch?

yest best would be if the patch is accepted upstream. (i guess directly using 
the person table for users requires a change really massive)

If is not accepted having an 1-1 conversion of the user name is fine (not sure 
about _ since you wouldn't be 100% sure how translates back if there were two 
_)

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Marco Martin