[opensource-dev] O.O Display name code DROP!

[Aidan Thornton]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Jamey Fletcher <jamey at beau.org> wrote:
> Is there actually a *reason* for this change, or is it just to screw
> around in the code to do provide an opportunity for new bugs, such as
> the one you found already?

I suspect the reason for the change is that with display names, the
names of participants in IMs and group chat no longer uniquely
identify them - and the usernames, which are unique, aren't available
at the point where the logging of chat and IMs is done. This also has
the interesting side-effect that it's incredibly difficult to figure
out who actually said something just from your chat logs, because the
only information in there that actually identifies them is their UUID.