mark added a subscriber: mark. mark added a comment. >>! In T572#9349, @chasemp wrote: > On the suggestions, the idea of multiple accounts, and/or dummy accounts to > be processed or merged at an unknown later date has been beaten to death by > us before. It's a giant mess that mostly only succeeds in deferring more > problems I think in most senses. The idea of Bugzilla as an auth provider I > don't think has ever been raised, or I don't remember it, Mukunda would > better know how tenable that is. I would say it's partially the problem that > never ends due to maintaining it as a local patch forever, and the arc > liberate and generated libraries headaches that can come from that. We would > also be looking at doing the same for RT, and I am not sure where that leaves > any other external source data (or really their unique users as it were). If > it were desirable we would still be looking at stubbing out accounts somehow. > I will bring these up in our planning meeting in the morning.
As for the RT part of this: the RT user database is relatively small, especially taking into account only users with access to the web interface (as opposed to auto-created on e-mail). I'm fairly sure we could easily match like 90% of the RT active user base to Bugzilla accounts in a semi-manual process -before- the migration if that helps. The remainder (which would include emails from external people who never even were aware they were mailing into a ticket system) could be done in the current static way. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T572 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. To: mark Cc: wikibugs-l, chasemp, Aklapper, Qgil, mmodell, Eloquence, faidon, RobLa-WMF, mark, jeremyb _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
