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Any update on progress around nickname support in the API?

Hi Bjø
Thanks for your reply. The specific use case I had in mind is this:

- I have a script that watches commits (numbered revision) to the Subversion repository for the Webkit project and posts them as status messages to http://twitter.com/webkit

- I use Metamark to generate, for each numbered revision, a shortened URL for the corresponding link to the Trac view for that revision

- instead of a random string, I would rather have a predictable URL that includes the actual revision number, prefixed by some abbreviation like "wk"; so like this:

http://xrl.us/wk31741

That's it, in a nutshell. Lemme know if that doesn't make sense.

--Mike

Hi Michael,

Incredibly you are the first to ask for this, so no - not yet. :-)

It's easy enough to add though. What is your use case? I think noone else has asked for it because most API users want it to be as simple as possible and wouldn't want to pick a name, deal with errors when the name is taken, etc etc.

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