Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote:

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 19:03, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 18:37, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote:

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You missed the other line (probably gmail's fault):

Most likely, all that will happen is identification entropy won't
increase nearly so rapidly and there might be other benefits
such as shortlog speed improvements.

The shortlog speed improvement is certainly not going to compensate for
all the added human time needed to process the extra piece of
information.

What added human time?

The time that humans will have to spend on this UUID
setup/fixing/whatnot.

Compatibility concerns aside, there is virtually no overhead. Indeed,
there would be less overhead than there is now in terms of fixing.

In a perfect world maybe.  Let's talk about it again when we get there.


Nicolas