small issue with lock_author_names

[Wolfgang Barth]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 03:48:04PM -0500, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:

> > lock_author_names=1 -> contact->alias
> > lock_author_names=2 -> contact->name
> 
> Why would you want that? You can have the alias being the same as the
> name; after all it's just a string with no real other purpose. The idea,
> though, is to have the real name displayed instead of the login name.
> A cleaner solution would be not to require an alias in contact
> definitions. Without an alias defined it will use the user name.

It was just an idea. Leaving 'alias' empty is possible since 3.0b4, so I can
switch to this behavior and we can stop this discussion here ;-)

BTW: the current documentation for 3.0 always marks 'alias' as required
(red), should be changed to optional (black).

Wolfgang
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