[Silva-general] fullname error again

[Kit BLAKE]

Marc,
> Silva 1.5.10
>
> we had again all of a sudden the following error:
>
>    Error Type:  AttributeError
>    Error Value: fullname
>
> running our FindFullnameError.py script from http://www.mat.ethz.ch/
> silva_cms/scripts we found out that the index document was affected.
> the same error was reported on march 1st 2007 (https://
> lists.infrae.com/pipermail/silva-general/2007-March/001090.html). the
> consequences of this error are still the same as mentioned before;
> non-administrators have no chance to fix this problem. i wonder if
> the newer versions of silva have a graceful fallback in case of such
> an error?

I looked up that mail, and quoting from it:
>> i ask myself where and why does silva need the fullname in the public
>> view? i searched through the layout code of the eth and the single
>> location where the fullname is used is in the sitemap. but we have
>> disabled the display of the author names...

The only place in the public view where I know full name is asked for
is *if and when* the author is included in the metatags, e.g.:
      <meta name="author" content="Fritz Lang" />
and this is in use on the mat.ethz.ch site.

However this doesn't solve the problem of having one glitch cause such
problems. We'll have to investigate that particular code.

Kit

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