Whimsy no longer references LDAP ou=pmc groups  (*)

I emailed the TAC chair (Gavin) about the TAC discrepancies, but I've
not heard what the final resolution is.

S.
(*) except in the script that does basic checks of (asf|pit)-authorization
Those files still use ou=pmc for TAC and Security, so the script has
to allow for it.
Removal will not affect the script.

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 23:11, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Turned out to be not too hard to recreate public_ldap_committees.json
> from ou=projects with some help from committee-info.txt.
> The public_ldap_groups.json file can also be created with some data
> from ou=groups to supply the non-PMC groups.
>
> This should allow external projects to continue working mostly correctly.
> However the JSON files cannot be used to determine membership of
> ou=pmc or ou=groups.
> This has long been the case for the guinea pigs.
>
> The updated scripts should continue to work even when projects are
> deleted from ou=pmc and ou=groups.
>
> However the rest of the Whimsy code has yet to be updated; that is
> looking much more complicated.
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 15:48, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > It's looking to be quite complicated to maintain compatibility.
> > I think this is important because external projects may rely on the
> > generated JSON data files, and it may not be possible to fix all the
> > projects in time.
> >
> > The change will affect two of the JSON files:
> > public_ldap_groups.json
> > public_ldap_committees.json
> >
> > In both the above cases, the guineapig projects are added to the output.
> > This was done to maintain compatibility for external projects.
> > In theory all projects now become guineapigs.
> > However the ou=projects list includes lots of podlings as well.
> >
> > One way to maintain compatibility would be to make all the existing
> > projects in groups/committees into guineapigs.
> > A bit messy, but it might work.
> >
> > Longer term, external projects need to stop using ldap_committees, and
> > only use ldap_groups for whatever is left (e.g. member, committers)
> > This involves fixing phonebook and projects.a.o; there are probably others.
> >
> > The cutover date of Feb 9th might be somewhat optimistic.
> >
> > I think we need to find out if there are any other projects using the
> > 2 above-mentioned Whimsy JSON files.
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 13:15, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 11:36, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Note mixed private and public lists
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 09:37, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 03:54, Chris Lambertus <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Sam, Whimsy Dev,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Some time ago we migrated projects to use the ou=groups,ou=project 
> > > > > > format with owner and member attributes.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The time has come to delete the legacy CNs.
> > > > >
> > > > > It might make sense to fix Whimsy ASAP and see if that causes any 
> > > > > grief.
> > > >
> > > > I have started looking at Whimsy.
> > > >
> > > > It needs a bit of care as the Groups/Project code is closely related,
> > > > and we need to keep the Groups for members and committers etc.
> > > >
> > > > There are some other entries only in ou=groups:
> > > >
> > > > apsite concom infra podlings
> > > >
> > > > I think infra and podlings are not used and could be deleted?
> > > > (podlings is empty anyway)
> > > >
> > > > apsite probably ought to be in a different OU -- if it is to be kept
> > > > It gives write access to /websites/production/www; maybe an existing
> > > > group (member?) would do
> > > >
> > > > Not sure about concom - maybe it should be ou=project?
> > >
> > > INFRA-17782 - create concom ou=project.
> > >
> > > > S.

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