[Alioth-staff-replacement] Alioth needs your help

[Philip Hands]

Michael Lustfield <michael at lustfield.net> writes:

> On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:02:15 +0200
> Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 04:00:23PM -0700, Michael Lustfield wrote:
>> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 23:24:35 +0200 Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> wrote:  
>> > > > One thing that was said during discussion, is that if someone wants to
>> > > > maintain an alternative as <my-prefered-solution>.debian.net it is
>> > [...]
>> > I'll send an update when I have something exciting to share! :)  
>
> http://gitea.debian.net is live.
>
> It's running the latest gitea revision, which means bugs are likely. I built
> this with budget VPS instances so it's entirely possible it could run into OOM
> problems. If anyone notices them before I do, please let me know so I can add
> some resources!
>
> There's a config cheat sheet if anyone wants to suggest I change something:
>   https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/config-cheat-sheet/

One thing that came up with the gitlab setup is the creation of users,
and differentiating DDs from guests somehow.  In Alioth we append -guest
to non-DD accounts, to avoid polluting the namespace.

With gitlab, it's currently not obvious how to make that happen, so it
seems we'll need a bespoke front-end for allowing things like guest
registration, and will then need to stop people from changing their
account names from within gitlab.

It occurs to me that we could make that front end such that it can
register users in multiple git platforms, so that when they register
they get the same account created in gitlab, gitea, and whatever else
anyone sets up, so that we don't get any clashes between the
alternatives.

An alternative way of doing it would be for the registration process to
check with all other platforms to see whether the account already
exists, and if so that the associated email matches, in order to ensure
that it can only be created if it is either a new account, or an
existing account belonging to the same person.

Perhaps you can have a ponder about how to best achieve this from the
gitea point of view.

Another thing to consider:  The fact that groups share the same
namespace (in gitlab at least, and presumably all of these things, since
they're inspired by github, which does likewise).

Cheers, Phil.
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