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

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:09:34AM -0600, Michael Witten wrote:

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:54, Mike Hommey [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

While I don't agree with the need for that uuid thing, I'd like to
pinpoint that people who care can't necessarily make their e-mail
consistant. For example, Linus used to use an @osdl.org address, and
he now uses an @linux-foundation.org address. It's still the same Linus,
but the (name, email) pair has legitimately changed.

Indeed.

This is because the name/email pair (as in the 'name' and 'email'
config variables) CONFLATES the idea of identity and current email
account.

You're assuming they aren't conflated - for example, when people do work
both personally and for their employer they often use distinct e-mail
addresses to identify how the work was funded.