[PATCH] auth: let users log in using their email address

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 05/16/2015 03:53 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
>
>> FWIW: The only other place where users have to care about their (and
>> others) "login" is in @mention. It would be nice to be able to
>> specify email addresses there too. @username at example.com should work
>> in the scanner (regexp) and auto completer. Some users would perhaps
>> prefer to avoid exposing their email address so it should perhaps be
>> configurable somehow ... but I'm pretty sure we already expose email
>> addresses in other places so such a "privacy" option would be a
>> separate feature.
> Well, this is something I'm not so sure about… Mentions should rather
> work with Real Names (autocompleting them to the login names, possibly
> expanding to a Real Name on display), but I don't think autocompletion
> should be done to email addresses. But let's address that later on,
> it's a bigger topic on its own.

It would be nice if completion worked for real names too, yes. But there 
are people for whom I know their email address but not necessarily the 
exact spelling of their Real Name ... and certainly not what username 
they chose when they registered on this site. So it would be nice if 
completion worked for all, even though not all would work for 
@mentioning in text.

/Mads