286786 - "login name" used throughout Bugzilla is incorrect; determine replacement, and replace.

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[Shane H. W. Travis]

The phrase 'login name' exists throughout Bugzilla code, comments, and 
templates... and it's just incorrect. A login is almost never a 'name', unless 
a site is using the Param(emailsuffix). 

While there is near universal agreement that 'login name' is bad, its 
replacement is not nearly so unanimous. The thing to which 'login name' is 
referring can quite correctly (IMHO) be referred to just as a 'login'; others 
feel that the correct term should be 'username'. 

See previous discussion on bug 103439.

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

In case it's unclear from my comments in the bug this came from, I don't think
that "login name" is incorrect.  The "name" in that phrase means generically "a
human-comprehendable identifier," not specifically "a given name" or "a
surname."  Although Bugzilla generally overloads that field to store email
addresses, there are plans to change that, and even without such a change, it's
still valid to refer to the value of that field as a "name," because it's that
as well.

So when I suggested changing from "login name" to "username", it's not because I
think "login name" is bad, but because I think "username" is better: it's more
common than "login name", it's easier to pronounce, it has an easier to speak
compound, its compound is more popular than the non-compound form (unlike with
"login name," which is more commonly written as two separate words), and it has
a generic meaning which matches the range of possible uses in Bugzilla more
closely (we won't just use it to log users in, we'll also use it in flag UI and
other places where a short but still human-comprehendable identifier is more
useful than a full name or email address).

Comment 2

[victory <[e-mail]>]

/me suggests 'user id' B-)

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

"login" is what all other websites use. Few people would understand username, IMO, as it would be confused with the realname.

Comment 4

[01tonythomas]

I would like to create a aptch for this bug. Please assign the same to me.

Comment 5

[Andre Klapper]

01tonythomas: Did you check if this bug report is still valid by grep'ing the codebase?

https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/ does not use "login name" and https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/enter_bug.cgi does not use "login name" either.

Comment 6

[01tonythomas]

(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #5)
> 01tonythomas: Did you check if this bug report is still valid by grep'ing
> the codebase?
> 
> https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/ does not use "login name" and
> https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/enter_bug.cgi does not use "login
> name" either.
Found it use 'login' these days. so bug is resolved right ?