On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 12:10 PM Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > > On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 7:21 PM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Roman, > > > > I understand that GitHub now recommends (not enforced) that people use a > > single > > GitHub id for all of their interactions on the service, and to specifically > > delete all > > accounts except for the one account. They can then merge the deleted > > accounts > > to their one account. > > Where is this coming from? Do you have a URL? I'm simply asking because it > goes > directly against most employer's recommendations that I know of. > > > [So this is different from Google mail accounts, which Google encourages > > folks to have multiple accounts for different purposes.] > > > > If people have multiple GitHub accounts, the one on the ICLA would be the > > one that they plan to have associated with their Apache id in future. > > > > Apache will only allow an Apache id to be associated with one GitHub id so > > I think we are ok there. Happy to have operations verify this. > > There's a LOT of things to unpack here, but I'm still not sure what > problem are we trying to solve.
I think it is quite useful for the new podling project. As the contributor or the initial committer doesn't have Apache id at that time, using the github id could help us track the contribution in the first place. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
