id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc branch changelog apichanges internalchanges 8444 Enhance author display on Trac's plugin admin panel sebastian@… sebastian@… "I find the behavior of Trac's plugin panel displaying information about the author(s) of a plugin a little bit strange. This field can be seen when browsing to `Admin -> General -> Plugins` and expanding an installed plugin. First of all, it ''never'' displays the author's name (at least not when using `easy_install` to install a plugin from a Subversion repository). The reason is: * If I provide an email address for my plugin (provided in `setup.py` under `author_email` and later in `EGG-INFO/PKG-INFO` under `Author-email`) the plugin panel will always use the email adress and ''never'' the author's name. * If I ''don't'' provide an email address, `easy_install` will fill the field in `PKG-INFO` with the value `UNKNOWN`. Therefor it's not `None` and the plugin panel displays `UNKNOWN` (instead of the author's name, if provided). Furthermore the plugin panel doesn't work with author names containing a non-ASCII character as in ""Radek Bartoň"". This is because Trac's plugin panel doesn't convert author names to unicode. I've attached a patch that fixes all these problems. I'm not sure whether this is a defect or an enhancement. But my guess is that this behavior was not intended so I file this as ""defect"". Btw: I'm using Python 2.6 with setup_tools 0.6c9." defect closed normal 0.11.6 admin/web 0.11.4 normal fixed patch