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If we have a GNOME login/account, we ...
If we have a GNOME login/account, we shouldn't need to register for every subproject in town, it should be automatic.
Same for freedesktop, sourceforge, savahna, ...
Example :
kmaraas
Look for his login in People
search.
You've got 3 pages of it
How it should be done : when adding an enlistment, we can see if the project is registered in one of those sites. If this is the case, ...
I guess the idea should rather be to check whether a user has already claimed contributions in the same repository and automatically add the contributions under the same username. The project
base is not really secure, as there might be (technically) independent repositories/servers on which users contributed with different usernames and overlapping names in that case could be really bad.
As a username should, as far as I can say, be unique in one repository (at least in csv and svn), that way should be quite secure.
Additionally, there could, of course, be a definition saying that all repositories of a certain scheme (like you said: sf.net, freedesktop.org, ...) do use one defined userbase and thus a username can be definitely be resolved to one user. :)
Greetings Stéphane and hangy!
Interesting problem. Can anyone confirm whether any of the forges enforce unique committer aliases across different projects? This could make life a lot easier for everyone...
I am fairly sure about SourceForge and it seems to be the same for the other two mentioned here (freedesktop and savannah).
Hi guys. Merry (and late) Christmas.
I'm fairly confident user names are unique across those meta-project repositories.
In fact, it's easy to have a SF.net account, but a lot harder to have a gnome.org or fd.o one.
Perhaps a match on commiter emails could be good too ? (even if emails should be somewhat hidden wrt spam bots harvesting the net)
kmaraas case is a kind of extreme one as he's a gnome.org master. But I'm pretty sure this kind of thing impacts lots of people !
Regards,
Stéphane Loeuillet