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

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Michael Haggerty wrote:

Michael Witten wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:41, Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] wrote:

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Michael Witten wrote:

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Rather than use a (name,email) pair to identify people, let's use
a (uuid,name,email) triplet.
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A UUID doesn't need to be a big hex number.  All it has to be is a
"Universally Unique Identifier".  Like, oh, for example, your

                  *** EMAIL ADDRESS ***

[1].  There is even already a way to fix up mistakes or unavoidable
email address changes, namely the .mailmap file.

*facepalm*

You've just repeated everything that I've said; go look at the rest of
the thread, where I spend plenty of time correcting the same hangups
about my choice of the word UUID and my use of hex digits.

No, my point is to use the *existing* email address as the UUID
*without* adding another field.  Nothing needs to be changed!

if you are now proposing using the e-mail address, that already 
exists and is supported by the tools, it sounds like you are just 
withdrawing your proposal (other than possibly proposing that the e-mail 
field gets renamed to UUID????)

David Lang