Linking is required to commit to the ASF hosted repo as well as the GitHub 
repo? My understanding was that linking and 2FA was only required to commit 
through GitHub, so no one would have diminished capabilities. I’d generally 
recommend only ever writing to a single repo to prevent concurrent commits.


> On Jul 18, 2017, at 6:21 AM, Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> We recently moved flink-shaded to GitBox; overall I'm quite happy with how it 
> works.
> 
> However, it is not possible for committers to push commits that haven't gone 
> through the github/asf
> account linking process (https://gitbox.apache.org/setup/).
> 
> I verified this today in an experiment with the help of Robert.
> 
> The linking process requires every committer to join the ASF github 
> organization, include their github username
> in the apache profile, and setup 2-factor-authorization for their github 
> account.
> 
> While i would love to have the gitbox functionality for the Flink repository 
> I don't know whether we want to
> impose these requirements on all committers.
> 
> On 21.06.2017 19:49, Robert Metzger wrote:
>> +1 for trying out Gitbox!
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> My understanding is that with GitBox project committers who have linked
>>> Apache and GitHub accounts are given organization write permissions. Other
>>> contributors will continue to have read permissions.
>>>   https://help.github.com/articles/repository-permission-levels-for-an-
>>> organization/
>>> 
>>> The last comment noting the “split-brain” shouldn’t preclude the use of
>>> GitBox but we should come to a general consensus before switching to commit
>>> into the GitHub repo.
>>> 
>>> If we want to try GitHub for flink-web, a second step could to switch and
>>> use with the nascent flink-libraries.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 18, 2017, at 6:50 AM, Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Found some info in this JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/
>>> jira/browse/INFRA-14191
>>>> Apparently, Gitbox is still in the beta phase. There are no public docs
>>> for it yet.
>>>> Committers are required to link their apache & GitHub accounts, which
>>> requires 2FA on GitHub.
>>>> As it stands I would be in favor of Gregs original suggestion of
>>> activating it for flink-web as a test bed.
>>>> I would wait with the main repo until we actually have more info and it
>>> is a bit more proven.
>>>> On 11.06.2017 19:37, Ufuk Celebi wrote:
>>>>> I would also like to see this happening for both flink-web and flink
>>>>> if it allows committers to have control over the respective repos.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> What are the downsides of this? Actually, is there any ASF resource
>>> that
>>>>>> outlines what this would enable?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In one of the threads i saw said that this would also allow committers
>>> to
>>>>>> close PR's, assign labels and such.
>>>>>> This sounds very interesting to me for the main repo actually.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 09.06.2017 17:41, Greg Hogan wrote:
>>>>>>> Robert has an open PR from March. I’ve found, for example, PRs adding
>>>>>>> links to talks or slides left open for months.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I’d suggest Fluo is to Accumulo as flink-web is to the flink repo, and
>>>>>>> that migration looks to be satisfactory.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Jun 9, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> bq. better track the oft-neglected contributions
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Do you have estimate on how many contributions were not paid
>>> attention in
>>>>>>>> the current infrastructure.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Looking at #2, it seems Accumulo community hasn't reached consensus
>>> yet.
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> ASF now has available (and maybe mandatory for new projects or
>>> repos)
>>>>>>>>> GitBox [0] which enables bi-directional sync to GitHub and links
>>>>>>>>> committers' accounts, allowing for greater use of GitHub
>>> functionality
>>>>>>>>> by
>>>>>>>>> contributors and for committers to perform many tasks otherwise
>>>>>>>>> requiring
>>>>>>>>> INFRA tickets.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'd like to propose moving flink-web [1] to GitBox, using GitHub
>>> issues,
>>>>>>>>> and enabling notifications to the mailing lists. Apache Accumulo has
>>>>>>>>> recently discussed [2] this topic with a list of benefits after
>>>>>>>>> migrating
>>>>>>>>> Fluo. By migrating flink-web we can better track the oft-neglected
>>>>>>>>> contributions and also test the waters for future migrations
>>> (perhaps
>>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>>> the future sub-projects).
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> [0] https://gitbox.apache.org/
>>>>>>>>> [1] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pulls
>>>>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>>>>> http://apache-accumulo.1065345.n5.nabble.com/DISCUSS-
>>>>>>>>> GitBox-tp21160p21497.html
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Greg
>>>>>> 
>>> 
> 

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