Show full name of the assignee rather than account username in GitHub Project Issues

[flavioaraujozup]

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Oh Github Projects, I want to see the full name of the assignee who is responsible for developing that issue. In large organization it's very hard to find out who is by username.

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[cyberfury10]

Hi, As a workaround, I have created an extension WebEdit Pro - (Chrome extension, Edge addon) that can replace the user name with the desired full name.

Let's say usernames are random alphanumeric strings

K43234, K43235 & so on. Imagine there are 100 users under that repository with auto-generated alphanumeric IDs and whenever there is something happened in the repo. we will see

"K43234 committed a new change"
"K43235 raised a new PR"

With the above chrome extension & mapping as follows,

K43234 -> "John"
K43235 -> "Bruce"

The result would be:
"John committed a new change"
"Bruce raised a new PR"

I added capabilities to perform bulk edit (like in Postman), it is easy to add hundreds of username mapping at once

One can get the username and full name from the people or Teams tab,

here is the repo link if you are interested to see the code & video link on how to use

[aryounce]

This is an issue for us as well. Many of our org members have usernames that are not easily associated to their real name.

[cyberfury10]

@aryounce
I have been using the above extension for quite some time and it helps. here is video link on how to use

[myfoxtail]

This is quite critical for management who don't want to see assignees nicknames and prefer real names. Would be great to get this in as an optional setting in a project view.

[garmede]

If not using real name on GitHub profile, my suggestion is to prefix your ID with an @ in parallel.
I think the option to show real name is essential anyway.

[Deykun]

I had the same problem in my old company, instead of @JimHelper and @MichaelScott you would see @dundermifflin_302512 and @dundermifflin_302513. I wrote a user script that learns the username on hover (from the profile's card) and swaps it to display the correct name in the future to solve that issue. The mentioned script: https://github.com/Deykun/github-usernames

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[lunndal]

Anyone figured out any GitHub native way to solve this?