[Silva-general] fullname error again

[Marc Petitmermet]

On 19. Feb 2008, at 10:44 Uhr, Kit BLAKE wrote:

> 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.

it just happened again. and we don't know what caused this problem.

regards,
marc