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Bug 202004

Summary: [IRC] IRCID should be unique over whole user session
Product: [RT] ECF Reporter: Jacek Pospychala <jacek.pospychala>
Component: ecf.providersAssignee: ecf.core-inbox <ecf.core-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: caniszczyk, remy.suen, slewis
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 2.1.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on: 198112    
Bug Blocks: 149912    

Description Jacek Pospychala CLA 2007-09-02 13:15:36 EDT 
Currently ID's are based on nick, which can change spontaneously (/nick command), making them not a really reliable user identity.

Consider a more permanent implementation of ID.

Possible solution is outlined in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=149912#c16
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2007-09-02 13:54:34 EDT 
Using the username will not work as it is not unique to the server. Using an IP is not valid either because you can connect to the server with as many different nicknames as you wish.
Comment 2 Jacek Pospychala CLA 2007-09-02 15:21:47 EDT 
from irc with Remy:
another solution would be to track nick changes and either
-modify ID to reflect it's new nick (not sure how, as IDs are immutable and we don't have references to all of them), or 
-have some kind of oracle, that would recognize two different IDs as same. (who'd like to implement oracle? ;) )
Comment 3 Scott Lewis CLA 2007-10-16 14:06:58 EDT 
(In reply to comment #2)
> from irc with Remy:
> another solution would be to track nick changes and either
> -modify ID to reflect it's new nick (not sure how, as IDs are immutable and we
> don't have references to all of them), or 

Might be useful to use IUser for nickname changes.

> -have some kind of oracle, that would recognize two different IDs as same.
> (who'd like to implement oracle? ;) )
> 

Uhh...:)
Comment 4 Scott Lewis CLA 2008-05-23 15:41:39 EDT 
changing target milestone.
Comment 5 Scott Lewis CLA 2014-02-14 16:06:07 EST 
*** Bug 149912 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Scott Lewis CLA 2014-02-14 16:08:23 EST 
*** Bug 198112 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Scott Lewis CLA 2014-05-09 13:38:16 EDT 
Resolving as wontfix for resources. If committer and/or contributor resources become available for work on this, then please reopen.