Re: How to get user name from 'author' id

Ralf Schlatterbeck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 02:05:33PM -0400, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> >I'm regularly using xmlrpc and know of at least one customer using
> >it extensively. Your patch should update the documentation on xmlrpc
> 
> It does. there is a second patch for the docs on that ticket.
Fine!

> >and the release notes (upgrading.txt) should mention that existing
> >xmlrpc scripts will have to be changed.
> 
> Ok, I can add a blurb for that.

Then I'd say, go ahead and commit these changes.
You should already have commit permission on SF.

[for ReST]
> But first I need to get my other patches in the mainline and get some
> major cycles to dig into the internals of the database layer to figure
> out why I am getting messed up data on:
> 
>   http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2550731
> 
> which apparently has been spammed with attachements. Sigh.
> 
> Ralf, any idea on how should I handle the attachment spam? If I just
> delete/unlink the file from the ticket the data/link is still
> accessible from the history.

Hmm, we should write a journal editor that can selectively remove
journal entries.
And we should set the contents of these attachment files to empty.

> Hmm, here is another idea: Should we be annotating links in the
> history as:
> 
>  <a rel="nofollow" href="..."> ...</a>
> 
> so deleted files aren't indexed by google etc.

Yes that would be a good addition. The idea is to be able to
remove spam without access to the machine.

Ralf
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