[rt-devel] Article name unicity

[Shawn Moore]

On 2016年5月26日 at 8:40:13, Emmanuel Lacour (elacour at easter-eggs.com) wrote:
> Dear RT developpers,

Hiya Emmanuel,

> I see
> that it's possible to create articles without name (explicitely
> permitted in ValidateName). Who knows the purpose of allowing empty names??
>  
> What BPS devs thinks about this?

I’m really not sure! Here’s the fifteen-year-old commit that added that comment and code:

https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/8ef2201de4ae5cf240ac5edffc31fc1ddfa0b115

Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any additional context in this or nearby commits.

My only guess is that we wanted to support using a custom field as the primary way identify articles instead, and so name would be unnecessary. But I don’t really know.

Sorry I can’t help more.
Shawn