Authorship of bullet points changes when a second author edits them

[timapril]

This has been recreated in both in our internal version of etherpad and on beta.etherpad.org (https://beta.etherpad.org/p/tapril_test).

When one author adds content to a bulleted list of items, the authorship correctly indicates the author. Once a second author modifies the bullet point, the authorship of the full bullet point changes to the second author and when using the hover author plugin, the author name shows as "[ojbect object]".

I do not recall this being an issue on 1.5.1 or before but I have not had a chance to go and do a binary search on the versions to figure out where the bug was introduced.

[JohnMcLear]

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate no?

[timapril]

@JohnMcLear I have just re-read the list of open issues and I cant find anything that makes me think this is a duplicate issue. I also looked more closely at the results for searching for "color" and "author" with no luck finding a dup.

[benlind]

@lpagliari, this is frustrating many of my colleagues. Do you have any updates?

[lpagliari]

sorry, guys, I didn't have time to focus on Etherpad lately. I'll try to take a look on the next few days

[lpagliari]

I could reproduce the first issue (line author is fully changed), but not the second one (author name shows as "[ojbect object]"). I'm still investigating the causes...

[dgoldfein]

Hi @lpagliari, Have you had a chance to look at the line author issue? We could really use a fix for this even if you haven't had a chance to look at the second issue.

[lpagliari]

@dgoldfein yes, I've been investigating the issue for the past couple of weekends. I still don't have a fix for it, but at least I found the commit that broke the behaviour. I'm looking on how to fix that now.

[lpagliari]

Ok, after a (long) while, I was able to find a way to handle all the scenarios, and this issue is finally fixed.