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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hi!

Okay, if there are more people having (small) issues with this, maybe we
should do something about it then.

I was first thinking of improving the heuristics (maybe only capitals,
which would make things work for cases like UAH; but it doesn't do any
good for FFHS) but then it's also really very easy to add a config
option and give admins full control. So, for the same amount of code to
be written, we can deliver either a partial or a full solution.

I'm thinking of the full solution :-)

So, the next version to come will have a per-profile option to set the
installer basename. It's optional as usual; if it's not set, we'll use
the heuristics still.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

Am 01.09.2017 um 17:30 schrieb Hunter Fuller:
> Stefan,
> 
> I'm in the same situation, where we have a weird abbreviation, but it
> doesn't matter enough to re-host the file just to change it.
> However, maybe you could notice certain words, and not include them in
> the abbreviation? We are the University of Alabama in Huntsville, or
> UAH, but we end up with "UoAiH" which looks a bit odd.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:55 AM Stefan Winter 
> <stefan.winter AT restena.lu
> <mailto:stefan.winter AT restena.lu>>
>  wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     > We are nearly ready to go productive. All works fine.
> 
>     That's great to hear.
>     >
>     > There is just one thing, I do not find where to configure. The
>     > downloaded installers name is
>     “eduroam-<OS>-<SUFFIX>.<FILE-Extension>”.
>     > For our institution this is for example when downloading for Windows 8
>     > “eduroam-W8-FSF.exe”.
>     >
>     > This Suffix “FSF” makes no sense for me. Can this be changed
>     somewhere?
> 
>     In the early days of the product, we had complaints about filenames
>     being too long.
> 
>     So, there is now a heuristics to shorten the filenames: if an
>     institution name contains three or more distinct words, only the first
>     letters of each word are taken for the filename.
> 
>     Example: "Trinity College Dublin" becomes "TCD". Which is a rather
>     straightforward algorithm and pleased almost everyone when we
>     introduced it.
> 
>     Your "FSF" comes from the fact your inst name is repeating itself, it
>     contains the long version AND its acronym:
> 
>     "Fernfachhochschule Schweiz (FFHS)"
> 
>     The algorithm scrubs off the non-alphabet chars, and then finds the
>     three words "Fernfachhochschule" "Schweiz" and "FFHS". It then takes the
>     first letters of those, which ends up as "FSF".
> 
>     If you were to configure an inst name "Fernfachhochschule Schweiz" then
>     the filename would be literal that (actually, an underscore instead of a
>     space to avoid the filesystem naming hell). If you were to choose only
>     "FFHS" then that would probably also lead to an acceptable name, as this
>     literal acronym would be chosen.
> 
>     To be honest, we abandoned the idea of making that bit of the filename a
>     configurable option when pretty much everybody seemed happy with the
>     heuristics.
> 
>     Maybe you can ask yourself: do you think your users will really care at
>     all about those characters in the filename?
> 
>     If you think they do, then our workaround would be: download the
>     installers, rename them, put them on a FFHS-operated support website,
>     and configure the "redirect" feature in CAT to take your users to that
>     other place.
> 
>     Greetings,
> 
>     Stefan Winter
> 
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>     de la Recherche
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