Hi Luke

Gerrit and Documentation intersects when we update or write a Help page.
In case you are curious (and bold to jump into the Help editing), you
may want to read this:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/GerritEditing

Kind regards
Olivier

Em 17/09/2019 02:57, Luke (gmail) escreveu:
> Not that my confusion is significant, but I just thought I'd mention I
> have no idea what gerrit is, have no gerrit account, and have no idea of
> the broader context of this message.
> 
> My confusion may relate to my single failed attempt to share some sample
> documentation by attaching a doc to a message to this list. I think that
> probably tells you just how much of a newbie I am.  But there's also a
> chance it indicates it's not so easy to get the big picture of the
> processes one is supposed to follow, to contribute to this free
> documentation effort.
> 
> luke
> 
> On 15/9/19 9:28 pm, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
>> Dear developers,
>>
>> Please visit https://user.documentfoundation.org/edit (use your Single
>> Sign-On credentials to authenticate — if you don't have an account there
>> then please create one) and check whether you have “Gerrit” in the
>> “Linked profiles” section.  If not, then add the preferred email address
>> of your gerrit account [0] to the form above; a confirmation token will
>> then be delivered to that address, and “Gerrit” should appear in the
>> “Linked profiles” section after confirmation.
>>
>> About 68% of the gerrit accounts who uploaded a patch set in the past 30
>> days are known to the Single Sign-On system.  These accounts can use
>> TDF's
>> new OAuth2 IdP at https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/login/ i.e.,
>> authenticate
>> through The Document Foundation's Single Sign-On system.
>>
>> Unfortunately, due to the way the OAuth2 plugin work, if you try a new
>> IdP
>> that is not linked to your existing gerrit account, then a *brand new*
>> account is created.  (This is no different than for other providers like
>> GitHub or Google.)  If that happens, then please *do not* start using the
>> new account, instead ask us to merge them ASAP at
>> [email protected]
>> (or on IRC at #tdf-infra).  While merging a fresh account is painless,
>> the
>> logic is more brittle (there is risk of breaking referential
>> integrity) if
>> they're both actively used, so again please poke us ASAP.
>>
>> In the not too distant future, TDF's OAuth2 IdP will become the *only*
>> way
>> to authenticate against our gerrit instance: authenticating using other
>> OAuth2 or OpenID providers will no longer be possible.  We're unable to
>> give a precise ETA right now, as we need a higher ratio of patchsets
>> authors in SSO, but that will definitely be *in 2019*.  Later this week
>> we'll individually poke all recent patchsets authors that are still
>> unknown from our Single Sign-On system.  Once we deprecate other OAuth2
>> and OpenID providers, gerrit accounts that are still missing from SSO
>> will
>> be effectively *locked out* until an infra team member manually tie them
>> up to the relevant LDAP DIT entry.
>>
>> FWIW finalizing the migration to TDF's OAuth2 IdP is a prerequisite for
>> upgrading gerrit to more recent versions (with shiny new Web UI, ed25519
>> SSH key support, CodeMirror editor plugin, and more [1]).
>>
> 
> 

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