add prenominal title Eur Ing on indico's forms

[fgeorgatos]

ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Engineer

[ThiefMaster]

Not sure if it's a good idea to add more titles than the basic ones... what about all the other ones some people might use?

M.Sc / B.Sc / Dr. rer. nat,, / Dipl.-Ing. / etc. - all titles that some people probably use, but are currently not present in Indico.

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This aside, adding a new title is not just adding it to the enum, it'd also require creating a new alembic revision to update CHECK constraints on all database columns referencing a title and possibly adding it in some legacy JS which does not make use of the enum.

[pferreir]

Can we somehow make this config-specific?

[ThiefMaster]

not with the current models (where we're just storing the numeric enum value)... i18n would be tricky as well (except when letting people provide various language versions in the config)

[fgeorgatos]

@ThiefMaster :
you have already opened that can of worms, by assuming that Dr./Prof. are automatically part of the basic titles... well!

one line of thinking could be to align with this (or any other defined passport standard for that matter): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118548/titles-included-in-passports.pdf

Regardless of if this one PR gets merged in, handled or not, I take the chance to ask you this question:

• Could there perhaps be a mechanism that allows to verify that someone is really entitled to that title (pun intended). I mean, some means to cross-check that people are what they say they are?

to be clear: Eur Ing is a well guarded and specific title. Any ideas welcome...

[ThiefMaster]

Since this PR is incomplete for the reasons mentioned above, maybe it's better to continue the discussion on supporting additional titles either in a normal issue or a forum thread?

Could there perhaps be a mechanism that allows to verify that someone is really entitled to that title (pun intended). I mean, some means to cross-check that people are what they say they are?

I don't see any way how this could be done - and honestly, I don't think this is done anywhere, except maybe in cases where you get benefits by using a title (e.g. applying for a job requiring you to have a PhD). I'm pretty sure I could book an airplane ticket as "His Majesty" or "Prof. Dr." without having any of these titles ;)