On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Chris Lambertus <c...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Whimsy, > > I’m proposing in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-13850 that we > implement the Title field in LDAP. This would require some tooling changes > that would involve Secretary, possibly whimsy code, and infra mods to the > ap-adduser scripts and other tools that manage and process > new-account-reqs.txt. > > Any thoughts on this change and what would need to be touched to make this > happen?
Related: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-13834 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0c78dee2654469db7ec5873974570dbd26e37ad1b7c5497817f69112@%3Cdev.whimsical.apache.org%3E It looks like we new fields: givenName and title. And a number of existing fields, including cn and entries in iclas.txt (which includes separate entries for public and full names). --- Overall, we should be moving in the direction of having the person themselves proving (or at least verifying) their name during the initial account creation process. Prerequisites to a new account are an ICLA and an invite, and these can happen in either order, so there are two paths. Once created, we need to nail down the responsibility for updating names. Given that names change infrequently and at least one copy (iclas.txt) isn't updateable by users themselves, this responsibility should go to the secretary (Craig, please confirm?), and the necessary tooling needs to be in place to allow the secretarial team to do so. --- The format of a new-account-request isn't flexible, but is workable (I'd prefer JSON or YAML, but adding still more fields at the end is probably easier): https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/acreq/new-account-reqs.txt If this changes, three (and possibly four) tools will need to be updated: https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tools/new-account-reqs.py https://whimsy.apache.org/officers/acreq https://whimsy.apache.org/secmail/ and possibly: https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tools/updateiclas.py --- The secretarial team already can update cn and givenName; and I presume that we will be allowed to update title too when it is added. There is a tool for detecting mismatches between iclas.txt and LDAP; but given that givenName and title aren't in iclas.txt, that is not likely to be affected. What I would like to see as the preferred interface for the secretary to use to update names is the roster tool: https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committer/ This tool already will update LDAP and iclas.txt. > -Chris - Sam Ruby
