On 08/13/15 02:15, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2015-08-12, o godz. 22:43:24 Dean Stephens > <desult...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): > >> On 08/11/15 10:32, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Hello, everyone. >>> >>> Now that we're officially on git and can officially use pull >>> requests to provide rapid community interaction, it'd be >>> convenient to have a little better framework for pinging >>> package maintainers. >>> >>> With the unofficial mirror/pull request project, I was either >>> looking for project member GitHub accounts and pinging found >>> project members by name, or talking to them directly on IRC. >>> However, with the growth in number of pull requests this will >>> become more and more inconvenient. Therefore, I think it's time >>> to be able to mirror teams willing to work with GitHub >>> community there for easier 'pings'. >>> >>> I have two ideas right now: >>> >>> 1. creating GitHub Gentoo project teams corresponding to >>> willing Gentoo teams, >>> >>> 2. preparing lists of GitHub usernames on project wiki pages. >>> >>> Solution 1. is cleaner. In this case, we create GitHub teams >>> under the Gentoo projects, and add appropriate Gentoo >>> developers having GitHub accounts to the teams. Then, in PRs we >>> can just ping the whole team like @Gentoo/Qt or like. >>> >>> Solution 2. avoids adding any GitHub teams. In this case, in >>> team wiki page we collect team member usernames like "@Pesa, >>> @kensington, ..." so we could copy-paste it to pull requests. >>> We still require extra effort when 'assigning' PRs but at least >>> I don't have to lookup the same people over and over again. >>> >>> With some Wiki people help, we could even implement updating >>> GitHub teams automatically following Wiki member changes. >>> >>> Your thoughts? >>> >> Why not use LDAP? > > Because: > > a) LDAP is PITA, > > b) therefore almost nobody cares to update team listings except > for occasional updates when they happen to need to change SSH keys > or something, > > c) team listings in LDAP are cleartext and completely random. > So, to rephrase, you intend to hammer another LDAP shaped peg into a wiki shaped hole because you can't be bothered to write some simple wrappers for managing the data in LDAP; though you are perfectly willing to offload work onto the wiki team to support your idea.
Exactly why should that be considered an acceptable solution?
