From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:32:43 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003182030480.31128@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <b4087cc51003181727k37dabd15y12ba34762b67c4d7@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 19:03, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 18:37, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> You missed the other line (probably gmail's fault):
> >> >>
> >> >> Most likely, all that will happen is identification entropy won't
> >> >> increase nearly so rapidly and there might be other benefits
> >> >> such as shortlog speed improvements.
> >> >
> >> > The shortlog speed improvement is certainly not going to compensate for
> >> > all the added human time needed to process the extra piece of
> >> > information.
> >>
> >> What added human time?
> >
> > The time that humans will have to spend on this UUID
> > setup/fixing/whatnot.
> 
> Compatibility concerns aside, there is virtually no overhead. Indeed,
> there would be less overhead than there is now in terms of fixing.

In a perfect world maybe.  Let's talk about it again when we get there.


Nicolas