Email links on usernames in ui.

[bskinnes@…]

Nice feature would be to generate ​mailto:xxx links when displaying user names ? Maybe better to make a plugin that can pop up a selection of callto: msnim: mailto:, etc. links… then again that kind of extended user information needs to be saved somewhere, is it possible to create this kind of extended user information for a plugin today ?

[daniel.oconnor@…]

… or a link to a view of public user settings of some kind… ?

[sid]

A slew of recent tickets were all concerned with hiding the email address (to make spamming harder). This seems to be in direct conflict with that.

[Christoph Zwerschke]

I think this is an important feature.

Roundup offers a list of users (​http://bugs.python.org/user) as well.

If you're concerned about revealing email-addresses, trac could use a contact form and the trac server would send the message, just like it sends other email notifications, without revealing the email address.

By the way, the RSS feed of the timeline shows the email addresses already, so if the mails really really shall be hidden, this should be fixed.

[Remy Blank]

This could be implemented as part of the improved user / group API scheduled for 0.13.

[Remy Blank]

…which is tracked in #2456.

[Vaclav Slavik <vslavik@…>]

Replying to sid:

A slew of recent tickets were all concerned with hiding the email address (to make spamming harder). This seems to be in direct conflict with that.

Not if the mailto: link was added only on requests with EMAIL_VIEW permission or if ​reCAPTCHA Mailhide would be used.