id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
9568,Allow users to log in using their email address,Denis-de-Bernardy,,"I've been looking into a few tickets and adding patches to things that were potentially problematic when implementing a membership plugin (#1626, #4170, #9563, #9564). The general idea being twofold: to avoid duplicate users at all costs -- because it's a bloody mess to merge users in a billing system.

I'm about to embark on a mid-sized patch that renders the WP username field optional. This is a natural next step from #9563 and #9564.

Users could then be allowed to specify an email only, when registering. And they could use their email to login -- in addition to their username if they specified one.",feature request,assigned,high,Future Release,Users,2.8,major,,has-patch needs-testing early,aaroncampbell asbjornu mikeschinkel@… 24-7@… beau@… norbert@… johnbillion@… gruvii bordoni.dev@… me@…