[12:00] <Mikaela> Hi, I am a bit confused on the IRC nicknames of Launchpad. I saw an email some days ago saying that it wants your accountname instead of nickname, but the field itself doesn't make that clear, could it be renamed into saying IRC account or have a help text saying that it should be the primary account name? I don't think I have access to anything that would care about what I have on the field
[12:00] <Mikaela> though
[12:03] <cjwatson> Mikaela: Are you referring to /~/+editircnicknames?  I'm not sure what email you're talking about; from Launchpad's point of view we don't care whether it's your primary account name, it's just a way to advertise how you can best be contacted
[12:04] <cjwatson> Mikaela: If some projects have a specific rule that it needs to be your primary account name for cloak assignment purposes or something, that's on them but not on Launchpad
[12:04] <Mikaela> I think I am. So the information is for humans and not bots?
[12:05] <cjwatson> I'm not sure that's a distinction we draw as such
[12:05] <cjwatson> We do expose the information in a machine-readable form
[12:06] <cjwatson> But from Launchpad's point of view we don't enforce any particular semantics - it's just meant to be a way you can be contacted
[12:07] <Mikaela> I see, thanks :)
[12:07] <cjwatson> If some projects need it to be the primary account name, and you want to get a cloak from them or whatever, then you'd need to either conform to that or get the projects in question to change
[12:07] <Mikaela> the email was https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2021-May/001924.html
[12:07] <cjwatson> (I don't really see why they would need a primary account name, but I'm not all that familiar with the internals of IRC)
[12:07] <cjwatson> Are you sure that means primary account name?
[12:07] <cjwatson> It may just be imprecise language
[12:08] <Mikaela> I am not sure, so you may be right
[12:10] <juliank> It took me a while to get that form to work
[12:11] <juliank> I was trying to add multiple libera nicknames and delete old networks at once
[12:11] <juliank> It seems it only liked me doing one change at a time
[12:12] <juliank> Now to figure out whether I should rebrand my launchpad and IRC ids to jak :D
[12:13]  * juliank acquired jak nick on libera