Because of privacy concerns with the 2.2 backport adding real name to

list rosters, this is controlled by a new ROSTER_DISPLAY_REALNAME
setting that defaults to No.

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Mailman/Defaults.py.in b/Mailman/Defaults.py.in
index fc64a1a4..068a7dab 100755
--- a/Mailman/Defaults.py.in
+++ b/Mailman/Defaults.py.in
@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND = '/usr/bin/lynx -dump %(filename)s'
 # character that doesn't match this class.
 ACCEPTABLE_LISTNAME_CHARACTERS = '[-+_.=a-z0-9]'
 
+# Shall the user's real names be displayed along with their email addresses
+# in list rosters?  Defaults to No to preserve prior behavior.
+ROSTER_DISPLAY_REALNAME = No
+
 
 
 #####
diff --git a/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py b/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py
index df22e5f2..901e7e58 100644
--- a/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py
+++ b/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ class HTMLFormatter:
             else:
                 showing = person
             realname = Utils.uncanonstr(self.getMemberName(person), lang)
-            if realname:
+            if realname and mm_cfg.ROSTER_DISPLAY_REALNAME:
                 showing += " (%s)" % Utils.websafe(realname)
             got = Link(url, showing)
             if self.getDeliveryStatus(person) <> MemberAdaptor.ENABLED:
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6f16998a..343f0c51 100755
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
 
   Bug fixes and other patches
 
+    - Because of privacy concerns with the 2.2 backport adding real name to
+      list rosters, this is controlled by a new ROSTER_DISPLAY_REALNAME
+      setting that defaults to No.  You may wish to set this to Yes in
+      mm_cfg.py.
+
     - Organization: headers are now unconditionally removed from posts to
       anonymous lists.  Regexps in ANONYMOUS_LIST_KEEP_HEADERS weren't kept
       if the regexp included the trailing ':'.  This is fixed too.