[horde] Why doesn't wicked use rampage_users?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting mrubinsk at horde.org:
>>
>>> Quoting Uttiya Chowdhury <chowdhury_uttiya at yahoo.com>> Hi all,
>>>> the change_author in wicked_pages is a varchar. Why doesn't it  
>>>> use rampage_users user_id instead?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> | change_author   | varchar(255)     | YES  |     | NULL    |
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The rampage tables are from the content system,  they do not store  
>>> information for all users.
>>
>> It can be used that way though - Trean does it. I think it's a  
>> reasonable idea.
>
> What's the rationale behind this? Wicked doesn't already have a  
> dependency on Content. Trean, at least, is already using the Tagger.  
> Regardless, wouldn't it be better to be consistent across all  
> applications - where we almost universally use usernames, and not  
> have to separately maintain another user database and require  
> another database lookup to map the username?

+1
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Jan Schneider
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