Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add login by email address and revise some messages to the user in Savane

[Ineiev]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:19:33AM +0100, Andrea G. Monaco wrote:
> 
> Maybe a little explanation will help.  The most important change in my
> patches is letting the user log in by mail address, which is looked for
> in the database if the login field doesn't match anything.  It happened
> to me to forget my user name and I think it's not that rare, so it would
> make the site friendlier and avoid people resorting to the admins to
> recover the user name when it is forgotten.

As a matter of fact, people rarely forget their logins---typically,
they forget their passwords and lose email accounts; when they do
forget their logins, the admins process their requests quite fast.
I don't think this is a real issue, perhaps tasks like sr #109278,
sr #109372, sr #109413, sr #109504, sr #110225 are more important.

> Other changes are just language changes or typo fixes as you said.
> Maybe adding "please" in some places and stuff like that is not very
> significant, but I think it makes the site a bit more polite and warm to
> the user.

Some of those changes are actually wrong, many other are so minor that
I wonder if they worth the additional translators' work.

> The change from "Real Name" to "Full Name" is worth a separate mention:
> I don't think the site should be asking for the "real" name, which
> people may rather not give for many reasons; so "Full Name" is better in
> my opinion.

We don't ask for any government-issued IDs. when people aren't
willing to give their "real" name (whatever it may mean),
they submit something else.

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