On 08/11/15 10:32, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> Now that we're officially on git and can officially use pull
> requests to provide rapid community interaction, it'd be convenient
> to have a little better framework for pinging package maintainers.
>
> With the unofficial mirror/pull request project, I was either
> looking for project member GitHub accounts and pinging found
> project members by name, or talking to them directly on IRC.
> However, with the growth in number of pull requests this will
> become more and more inconvenient. Therefore, I think it's time to
> be able to mirror teams willing to work with GitHub community there
> for easier 'pings'.
>
> I have two ideas right now:
>
> 1. creating GitHub Gentoo project teams corresponding to willing
> Gentoo teams,
>
> 2. preparing lists of GitHub usernames on project wiki pages.
>
> Solution 1. is cleaner. In this case, we create GitHub teams under
> the Gentoo projects, and add appropriate Gentoo developers having
> GitHub accounts to the teams. Then, in PRs we can just ping the
> whole team like @Gentoo/Qt or like.
>
> Solution 2. avoids adding any GitHub teams. In this case, in team
> wiki page we collect team member usernames like "@Pesa,
> @kensington, ..." so we could copy-paste it to pull requests. We
> still require extra effort when 'assigning' PRs but at least I
> don't have to lookup the same people over and over again.
>
> With some Wiki people help, we could even implement updating
> GitHub teams automatically following Wiki member changes.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
Why not use LDAP?
