I just spent a bunch of time on IRC discussing this with Ori. I have brought the following suggestions out of it which could have alleviated our confusion, or, in the case of 3), made it never noticeable
1) describe what is meant by 'primary email address' in the /u/myname metadata setup. Here, months ago, you say that its in the docs but it isnt intuitive: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/5186/ So, add a link to that to /u/myname metadata setup. This should take 5 seconds. 2) allow users to specify an alternate email address besides `primary` for binding to a gravatar icon in the /u/myname metadata setup. This is more of a feature request. It would allow users more control over what happens, which would be especially welcome during this time of confusion. Unfortunately, it sounds like real work. Finally, I'm not sure whether this is standard practice for gravatar-using sites. If it is, you should probably follow suit, although I have no idea because I don't use gravatar. 3) I'm writing this here because it came out of the discussion on IRC, but it's a bad idea: In order to solve confusion, you could redefine "primary email address" for /u/myname metadata configuration to mean [email protected], such that it matches the approach taken by the pre-allura account profiles. Well, that's inconsistent with the auto-selection of [email protected] which you guys have chosen, and I think the way you guys have done it is just fine, subject to docs caveat in (1). The remainder of his post here seems to me to be about the confusing degree of incomplete integration of allura onto the site (there are at least two mostly-independent profile systems choosing different email addresses for gravatar binding and getting used at points throughout the site which seem random if you dont know which parts are allura and which parts arent). But I could be just as confused. --- ** [tickets:#2868] Incorrect gravatar used on user page [21867]** **Status:** open **Labels:** support p3 **Created:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 01:55 PM UTC by Chris Tsai **Last Updated:** Sat Jan 04, 2014 06:33 PM UTC **Owner:** nobody https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/21867 >On the user page https://sourceforge.net/users/pander is a gravatar used that >is resolved on the private email address from the user. >Since the private email address or at least its gravater is not publicly >associated with the sourceforge user account, this gravatar should not be >shown at all. This might indirectly reveal personal information that the >sourceforge user would not like to communicate to the outside world, >especially when the user has no further control over this. >Please use the gravatar for only the user.sourceforge.net email address, not >for the private email address. In this way the user has complete control over >which kind of avatar is associated publicly with his or her sourceforge >account. >Implementing this improves privacy of the user and prevent possible >embarrassment or unintended association. Further comments from the user (before I posted any reply): >Apparently when one creates a gravatar for @users.sourceforge.net email >address, this is used by default over the gravatar of the private email >address. This should be made clear in the documentation and on the form to >manage the user account. >Also I'd recommend not to use the gravatar of the private email address at all >and make it clean to the user what is happening so he or she only needs to >worry about gravatar of @users.sourceforge.net and knows that NEVER a gravatar >of the privare email address will be used. And: >Hmmm, still the @users.sourceforge.net account is not used as the preverred >one. This might be concluded from https://sourceforge.net/u/pander/profile/ >(hence my previous post) but is not the case for >https://sourceforge.net/users/pander Thoughts? --- Sent from sourceforge.net because [email protected] is subscribed to https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/tickets/ To unsubscribe from further messages, a project admin can change settings at https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/admin/tickets/options. Or, if this is a mailing list, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list.
