[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Limit the nick name to be only 8 characters maximum #10737

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Just in case people are wondering: this patch does only affect internal
> handling. The nick name that is visible in the UI (neighborhood view) is not
> affected by the limiting. It will be displayed in full length.

And what are the adverse consequences if there is a conflict between
JoseMariaSuarez and JoseMariaRamirez ?

I think you'd want to show that the potential bugginess is not so bad,
or else hash the names rather than truncate them.
 --scott

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