GitHub usernames in maintainers field

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hi,

On 4 February 2017 at 17:07, Clemens Lang wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 03:12:27PM -0800, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> > maintainers     {jmr @jmroot} openmaintainer
>>
>> Why did we choose to do it this way instead of a central list of email
>> -> github mapping? This method requires some level of replication.
>
> Ports can exists outside of a port repository. External repositories
> could have different assignments, Portfiles could even exist without a
> mapping file at all.

What we need is:
- ability to send emails to maintainers (that includes the buildbot)
- ability to @mention them in GitHub PRs
- ability to assign or CC people in Trac tickets

I would in fact prefer to see the official tickets to have a common
"database of maintainers" with obfuscated email addresses together
with GitHub usernames and then only see one entry for maintainers in
the Portfile (but I'm not so strongly opposing having both in the
Portfile; in particular not now that having both in the Portfile is
supported and having a separate database is not).

I don't care that much what exactly is written in the Portfile, but I
need the ability to get the email and @username with "port info" at
least.

If maintainers simply start *replacing* their emails with their
usernames in portfiles (which is what I already saw happening in some
tickets/pull requests a while ago) then:

- we'll lose the ability to email them
- we won't be able to send them auto-generated emails in case of
buildbot failures
- we won't quite know whether a maintainer is a committer or not

and we don't want that.


In my opinion the initial addition of github usernames next to email
addresses should happen with a script. Doing this manually is:
- tedious, lots of work
- error prone
- destined to take forever (using the mapping between emails and
github accounts from Trac wuould be mo reliable source of information
that waiting for maintainers)

Maintainers that we'll most urgently want to reach won't answer the
call to change their usernames; hack, I already managed to open a
"port abandoned" ticket for a committer who still refuses (or at least
doesn't bother) to replace his super ancient email address (that he
never uses to communicate with other macporters) with his macports
handle, so it wasn't obvious that it was the same person.

Mojca