Put UID, account number, on d.o profiles [#2434561]

Problem/Motivation

As mentioned in #2281763-111: Make Drupal.org user profiles more robust 4. by @danigrrl

Added the UID to the user history, and moved "Community Involvement Stats" to the right, so it's very visible.

(and in #81 12. and #92)

The UID, user id, or account number, is still needed to be known.
Since it is not in the url anymore (/u/username) knowing a trick like looking at the url for the contact form is making it something "insiders" only know to do.

uid is needed to be known for

using as an argument in some views, eg #2404363: List sandboxes on user profile pages
for json queries #2431511: Drupal.org API: user.json returns a 403

Proposed resolution

Put UID, account number, on d.o profiles
so people can read it on the page, and
make it available in a format usable, like json)

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

Yes.

API changes

No?

Comments

Comment #1

jhodgdon

she/her

English

CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented 24 February 2015 at 15:40

Why do people actually need to know the UID any more? I looked at the referenced comments but I'm not seeing an explanation of why the UID is needed. I'm not against displaying it, but I don't understand why you want it. To me, the u/(name) URLs are sooooo much easier to deal with...

Comment #2

YesCT CreditAttribution: YesCT commented 24 February 2015 at 15:49

Issue summary:

View changes

good point. I thought it was there.
updated the issue summary.

for example:
https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/user/UID

and
https://www.drupal.org/project/user/UID
which lists sandboxes
eg: https://www.drupal.org/project/user/258568

Comment #3

pfrenssen

Sofia

CreditAttribution: pfrenssen commented 24 February 2015 at 16:00

The UID is also needed for git attribution. The git attribution string is no longer shown on the user profile, but at least it can be reconstructed if the username and user ID are known:

git commit -m "message" --author="username <username@userid.no-reply.drupal.org>"

Comment #4

jhodgdon

she/her

English

CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented 24 February 2015 at 16:11

Please add that to the user summary.

Comment #5

jhodgdon

she/her

English

CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented 24 February 2015 at 16:16

Although regarding #2, I would argue that a more user friendly way of handling those particular URLs than displaying the numeric ID so that a few people who happen to know that those URLs exist would be able to use them, would be to put links on the user profile to "xyz's issues" and "xyz's projects", similar to the links we have when viewing our own profiles.

And regarding #3, that is actually being discussed on #2405787: Restore git attribution string on user profile, so on second thought, don't add it to the user summary.

And regarding JSON, that looks like it's on the related issue that is already linked in the sidebar.

So... I'm still not against displaying the UID, but if those are the reasons it's needed/wanted, there may be better (in the sense of more direct) solutions we can explore to expose those pages/URLs/strings?