1146124 - Status field, displayed with every comment

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: User Accounts, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Currently, many people use the Real Name field to tell the world important things
about themselves. I have seen:
- 'I'm on vacation till ...'
- 'Not reading bugmail'
- 'Die marquee die' ;-)
- 'Looking for a job'
These are commonly added in round brackets after the real name. It is a pain,
because:
- It makes it rediculously long
- It can't be used for other purposes, where a shorter name for the user is
needed (like bug 181235).

Make a field, especially for these purposes. People should write in there a few
words which they want to let the world know. These would be shown prominently,
maybe even very similar to today, but we (bugzilla) would know what it is and
can ignore it for certain usages and adjust the HTML in others.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

xref related bugs:
* bug 338393 - Split Real Name into First/Last Name
* bug 1146127 - nickname field
* bug 372417 - custom profile fields
* bug 243944 - user bio (different, because on separate page)

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to Ben Bucksch (:BenB) from comment #0)
> These would be shown prominently,

I disagree that this should be shown prominently. As suggested in bug 243944, having a separate page with user details is much better and doesn't interfere with the current UI. If someone has something to say about himself, we could display a [i] information icon besides the user name which you could hover to get some additional info, and clicking the icon would display the user details page.