Comment 5 for bug 800361

> * Expanders seem finicky given you're just showing a couple more
> words or often nothing more at all. Why not just always show the
> person's relevant affiliations? If we want to avoid people
> accidentally assigning to the wrong person it seems pretty important
> it be easy to just notice this.

The affiliation video was just an example of showing more data on
expansion--other options might be "most active in ..." or other data,
depending on what can be passed along. I absolutely agree that expanding
without more data is pointless--the idea per the bug report is to show a
good bit more data if possible. Sorry I didn't find a way to make this
clearer in the video, I was just sort of mocking out what things might
look like.

> * It seems a bit redundant to have a text field with a link next to
> it that brings up a popup with another text field that does
> essentially the same thing.

That may well be true.

> Following mpt's suggestion of considering multiple solutions, another
> would be:
>
> Get rid of the 'choose' link and the popup window. Let people type in
> the person field directly, and show a drop down menu of matching
> names, with the exact match first, and decorated with affiliation,
> email, and other information.

That sounds really cool, actually.