On 24/05/11 12:47, Jeroen Vermeulen wrote: > On 2011-05-24 00:17, Elliot Murphy wrote: > >> I think the same capability (of having an account used by a non-human >> to read and write to launchpad) is needed by plenty of people outside >> of launchpad (anyone using Tarmac), so a single celebrity user sounds >> like a solution that would not solve this problem for everyone. > > We're talking about entirely different things. I'm not trying to solve > a problem for everyone, just for Launchpad itself. And I don't think > there is a problem of Launchpad code not having the capability to read > and write to Launchpad! > > The specific problem at hand is that of Launchpad itself not existing as > a person in Launchpad, but Launchpad's code sometimes doing things that > require a Person object to represent itself. > > Such a Person should be a celebrity because Launchpad code would need it > as a fixed identity in several places.
But Launchpad is not the only robot talking to Launchpad. It is a general problem, and a special-case solution that works for internal code is probably not a very good solution at all.
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