Hi,

After extensive discussions with my fellow organizers, we decided to
go with an oauth consumer on wikitech, and I submitted a new consumer.
It would be great if Bryan or another Oauth admin could take a look at
it (we're waaay overdue with that already).

Thank you,
   Strainu

2016-10-22 17:06 GMT+03:00 Strainu <[email protected]>:
> Thank you all for your suggestions. I'll discuss with the people who
> implemented the original application and decide on the best approach
> given the limited resources and time.
>
> Strainu
>
> 2016-10-22 3:23 GMT+03:00 Gergo Tisza <[email protected]>:
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm simply trying to make it easy for the users. In the current
>>> version of the tool, they login with the github account and the rest
>>> happens "magically": the tool retrieves their pull requests and scores
>>> them according to a predefined set of criteria - no need for user
>>> input of any kind. I just want the same workflow for patches submitted
>>> to gerrit and I needed a way to authenticate the users and match the
>>> information I have from the OAuth endpoint with reviews from gerrit.
>>
>>
>> In that case, I would require them to prove account ownership by sending an
>> email to the gerrit email address with a verification link.
>>
>> Or you could require that that email address is present in Github (it does
>> not have to be the primary address, and this is a good practice anyway as
>> it will ensure that the clone repo on Github attributes the patch to them
>> correctly once it gets merged - although in theory the Gerrit owner,
>> committer and author email address could be three different things, but
>> that's unlikely to happen) and then verify that somehow. You can probably
>> just upload a gist with that address and check whether Github attributes it
>> to them.
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