This is right Claude. Essentially, the people.apache.org handle can be seen as a “handle reservation” to a future ASF ID handle, that will be granted when the contributor becomes a committee.
So it’s basically a pre-ASF ID handle granted to contributors without any privileges or login (except the people.apache.org auto-generated contributor page). On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 09:19 Claude Warren <cla...@xenei.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:55 AM Paulo Motta <pa...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > 3. John Doe fills a simple form and selects the username "doejohn", which > > is not an ASF id, but just a handle to a people.apache.org page. If an > ASF > > id exists with the same name, then the request is rejected. > > 6. After some years of contributions, John Doe is invited to be a > committer > > of Apache Foo. > > a. John can "convert" its username "doejohn" into an ASF ID, or can > > choose another ASF ID handle when becoming a committer. > > b. This kicks-off an update to people.apache.org/~doejohn to change > the > > role from "ASF Contributor" to "Committer at Apache Foo" > > > > > The above 2 points indicate that our new committer registration would > require that no handles used on people.apache.org be granted as an ASF id. > Seems like we need a way to track the union of ASF Id and > people.apache.org > handles. > > > -- > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren >
