Try the following: https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committer/__self__
Text can be adjusted if necessary On Tue, 19 Sept 2023 at 15:42, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Sept 2023 at 13:11, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > > > > sebb wrote on 9/18/23 6:17 PM: > > > On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 20:18, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi, whimsy folks, > > >> Could you please remove the GitHub ID field from the whimsy roster > > >> service? > > >> The field is not canonical/authoritative, and mostly just serves to > > >> confuse new committers these days. The only authoritative place for > > >> GitHub IDs is through https://gitbox.apache.org/boxer/ > > > > If this is causing problems for Infra, we absolutely need to at least > > clearly annotate the field, and provide a link to gitbox, to ensure > > users don't keep asking questions in the wrong place. > > I would be interested to know how many of the Ids in Whimsy differ > from the ones tied to ASF accounts? > > > > The GitHub ids in Whimsy are provided by their owners, so can be > > > considered authoritative, even if they might not be the ones that are > > > linked to ASF accounts. > > > I am told that people find them useful. > > > > > > Maybe a solution would be to add a note that the id might not be the > > > one that is linked to the ASF id. > > > Even better would be if the boxer system could validate which GH Id is > > > being used for linking? > > > > Having GitHub ID in whimsy is useful, because many committers know it as > > a place to find information about accounts. However, we should > > deprecate/document any fields that have specific ties to other systems, > > especially which ones are authoritative either for viewing or writing. > > > > Proposal: Leave a "user supplied githubid" field here, with a clear note > > about how it gets populated. Some new committers may not have tied them > > together yet, and will be curious. > > > > Also have a "GitBox Registered GH ID" field or the like, which is > > read-only and just pulls whatever gitbox tells us, and if you click on > > it, takes you to the gitbox login or register screen. > > > > If we just delete it completely from whimsy, some committers will wonder > > where it went. > > Indeed, and that may result in more confusion and complaints than is > currently seen by Infra. > > > Does that make sense? > > OK by me. > > > > > -- > > - Shane > > Whimsy PMC > > The Apache Software Foundation > >
