Dnia 2015-09-17, o godz. 17:19:17 Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> napisał(a):
> Replying somewhere randomly with an idea. > > Since projects are now on the wiki, why don't we use that as the > canonical source of project members? It's machine readable, although not > so nice to have it located outside the repo/ldap. How about... because: 1. You can't list developers who are not subscribed on the wiki. I've asked for some solution multiple times, and so far people are just INVALID-ating the bugs and pointing fingers. Of course, it could be partially related to the fact that we still don't have any SSO for Gentoo services, and have to ask people to sign up manually everywhere. 2. You can't list plain users (proxied maintainers) who work in the team. And yes, I know GLEP doesn't say they could. But sure, let's ignore reality and trust in the GLEP written back when people still believed Gentoo is an elite community worth joining. 3. To be honest, Wiki is terribly slow and inconvenient. I'd rather see this data in git rather than in some private database, and editable without having to resort to web browser or fancy APIs. 4. Sure you could say it's machine-readable. But nobody so far volunteered to work with that machine-readable data. 5. It's better to design a format for data, and teach tools to use it. Not the other way around -- teaching all the tools the specific SMW API, and having to update everything if that changes or we change software. > The email alias would then be auto-generated from the project members. > This has a nice side effect: regular users can already modify their own > accounts on the wiki. It should be possible to give users the ability to > "follow" a project. The alias generation would then include all > "following" users. Did you just volunteer to write the code? -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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