Remove UserProfile.short_name.

[showell]

We no longer use UserProfile.short_name in any meaningful way, so we should sweep it from our code.

If you work on this, you should have some experience with doing full-stack stuff, and you'll want to communicate with the mobile team.

[zulipbot]

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[modestlearner]

Can I take this up??

[showell]

yep, @modestlearner, you can work on this...probably the first step is to remove short_name from static/js/*.js and static/templates in one or two atomic commits

[lonerz]

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[modestlearner]

@showell Thanks for your support.
But can you please help me out with this as I am new to the community and want to contribute.

[showell]

@adnrs96 @timabbott This might be a good thing to fix in light of UserProfile getting bigger and bigger. I'm also curious if there's been any last-minute defense of having the field around or at least migrating it to custom fields or something.

[timabbott]

Whether this makes sense to remove is pending some decisions around making email addresses private; we might end up reusing the field for that feature,

[punchagan]

Short name doesn't seem to have been used for implementing the feature making email addresses private. Do we want to remove the short_name field?

[timabbott]

This was in fact removed a few years ago.