David Turner wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 20:23 -0500, whit wrote:
>> we might consider better ids to identify projects and people to
>> communicate between apps.
>>
>> both projects and people already have uids associated with them, it
>> would avoid certain problems by using them. Currently I'm thinking of
>> project deletion or incomplete project creation where lingering
>> instances of the id create issue when someone tries to use that id
>> again.
>
> What kind of UID?
>
> Do you mean a random number? If so, I'm -1 on that.
>
> Random numbers are really nice inside a monolithic system, because you
> can always resolve them back to what they refer to. But in a
> distributed system, it can be a hassle to figure out why you're seeing
> 152352-134214-412 when you expect 912334-613412-678. I would rather see
> URLs as ids, since they're still unique, but they're easy to understand.
There's a middle ground where we use a stable id like username-434839.
It's both readable and unique over time.
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