Review user ID changer component

[Steffen Hoffmann]

Please decide, if you would like to take the upcoming user ID change component into your plugin, or leave it as part of the AccountManagerPlugin code distribution.

I open this ticket in order to notify on the existence of this component for ScreenshotsPlugin and get explicit feedback from plugin's author. Thank you in advance for taking your time to review that code, maybe even the underlying concept.

[Steffen Hoffmann]

(In [12736]) AccountManagerPlugin: Add optional user ID changer components for other plugins, refs #10900, #10901, #10902, #10944 and #10945.

In addition to VotePlugin (supported by RenameTracUsersScript too) support for

• AnnouncerPlugin > 0.12.1
• ScreenshotsPlugin (all versions)
• TracFormsPlugin > v0.2

is provided within this plugin.

With the publication of this code the requests for feedback are almost obsoleted, even more, because non of the pre-existing solutions provided the coverage and extensibility, that is offered now within this plugin.

[Steffen Hoffmann]

Replying to hasienda:

With the publication of this code the requests for feedback are almost obsoleted, ...

Note that this doesn't apply here, only for the other hacks, that provided user ID change support up to some degree before.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Moving the code to ScreenshotsPlugin sounds like a good idea. However, as a next step I think we should aim to integrate the user management panel and AccountManagerPlugin APIs to Trac, then have ScreenshotsPlugin implement the user ID changer against the Trac API.