https://www.redmine.org/https://www.redmine.org/favicon.ico?16793021292013-03-20T04:51:28ZRedmineRedmine - Feature #13527: 'Display name' for usershttps://www.redmine.org/issues/13527?journal_id=471212013-03-20T04:51:28ZMischa The Evil
<ul></ul><p>Joshua DeClercq wrote:</p>
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<li>Privacy priorities, where the Redmine host users may be comfortable sharing a full name, but external users require some level of identity obfuscation from each other.</li>
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<p>Such could be better solved by something like <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Feature: Prevent users from seeing other users based on their project membership (Closed)" href="https://www.redmine.org/issues/11724">#11724</a>, I think.</p> Redmine - Feature #13527: 'Display name' for usershttps://www.redmine.org/issues/13527?journal_id=471242013-03-20T07:19:54ZAnonymous
<ul></ul><p>I don't know, that's all very kludgy. Playing with who can see watchers, who can see the member box on Overview... it's all so... half a solution. Hiding the member block and watcher list doesn't hide users from the assignee drop-down. It doesn't hide the author value of any issues we want to make public. What's more, these aren't necessarily things we <em>want</em> to hide. Maybe we don't want to completely lock them out of assigning issues to others, or hide everyone--including ourselves--from them.</p>
<p>It's all just too chaotic, too specific a use case, and requires too much heavy-handed policy enforcement. It's less time-consuming and less of an imposition on the user to just let them wear a less identifiable--but still recognizable to the people who know them--name of their choosing.</p>
<p>All my opinions, of course. I'm always going to favor the solution that gets the most robust and versatile results with the least work and upkeep, so naturally if a better solution is out there, I'm all eyes.</p>
<p><strong>Edit</strong><br />You made me think about that angle a little more, though, and while I still believe there's a purpose to having a Nickname/Display name option, I think I'll also describe a model for user visibility. Just in case it's any good, I'll log it as a separate ticket, though (<a class="issue tracker-2 status-1 priority-4 priority-default" title="Feature: Concept for controlling visibility of users (New)" href="https://www.redmine.org/issues/13533">#13533</a>).</p>