broken account

I have written to the almighty Otto. Exactly 20 minutes later the reply came in:

From what I can tell, you discovered that profiles doesn’t like spaces
in names (we know), and so you made a username without a space in the
name. Now you want to transfer a plugin from the old spaced account to
the new spaceless one.

This is easy. You can do it yourself.

Step 1: Add the new account name as a committer. You appear to have done that.

Step 2: Change the readme.txt file that comes with the plugin to have
your new account name on the Contributors line.

Step 3: Wait for the plugin data to update itself.

We don’t really change account names or “transfer” things between them.

I did it so. Then I have removed the whitespaced profile from the commiter list. Now everything is nice. This is the last post from my old account.

Hmm, I think the support guy doesn’t understand my problem. I post my emails.

My second email:

Hi ****,

yes, that is right. On my plugins page
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/readable-names/ the author “Doktor
Bro” is linked to https://profiles.www.ads-software.com/users/Doktor+Bro/. This
is a white screen of death ?? I have written about it in the forum
first
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/change-wordpressorg-login-name?replies=10#post-1694914 and the moderators pointed me to [email protected]

I’m sorry to be registered as “Doktor Bro”. There was no hints like
“don’t use whitespace”. All I want is a working profile, like Matt
https://profiles.www.ads-software.com/users/matt/

You can change “Doktor Bro” to “doktorbro” or “anatolbroder”.

And my 3rd email:

****,
sorry, I must explain. After my first email to [email protected], I
have changed contributors name from “doktor-bro” to “Doktor Bro”. But it
is not really better. We have 2 cases:
1. “Contributors: doktor-bro” => The author name does not appear.
2. “Contributors: Doktor Bro” => The author name and gravatar do
appear. But the link to profile goes to a white dead.
No matter what I do, it doesn’t work.

I repeat, all I need is a working profile.

Now I have created a new profile “doktorbro“. I ask myself if I’m able to transfer the plugin from “Doktor Bro” to “doktorbro” without support. It’s so frustrating…

Yesterday I have written to the other end. Waiting…

Thank you, James!

But there is a bug anyway. I can see my profile listed on https://profiles.www.ads-software.com//users/ as https://profiles.www.ads-software.com/users/Doktor%20Bro/ but the link is a white dead.

I have a plugins profile https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/profile/doktor-bro I contribute the Readable Names plugin. That’s why I put “doktor-bro” in the readme.txt of my plugin. But I cannot see my name on the bottom on plugins page. What is my contributor name?

In the new version 0.5.1 the bug seems to be resolved.

I get your email with the localization. Thank you!

The issue with “a” seems to be inside the installation procedure. I can reproduce it. Next days I kill the bug.

Hmm, I can save the whole Persian alphabet and the Persian numbers. What is your entry in wp-config.php define ('WPLANG', '??_??'); define('DB_CHARSET', '????');

Yes, for sure. Now the plugin supports Russian. I don’t speak Persian, but I know people who can.

Persian is on the top of my todo list.