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Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian



On Mi, 08 apr 20, 19:40:27, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, Apr  8, 2020 at 14:30:43 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 
> > Hi Zhu
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 07:50:22PM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> > > 1. Can you still keep the "-guest" enforcement, so it's still easy to
> > > recognize who is DD or not on salsa?
> > 
> > No.  The guest suffix was meant to avoid collisions with Debian
> > accounts.  And the tool used to enforce it is unmaintained.
> > 
> I think avoiding collisions with debian accounts is still valuable, and
> the proposal doesn't explain why removing this protection is in any way
> related or necessary for other services to use salsa as auth providers.

I must be missing something so I'm asking: what is the *benefit* of 
avoiding collisions with Debian accounts?

While I'm at it, in my opinion as a non-Debian Member, getting rid of 
the -guest suffix is also slightly more welcoming for new contributors.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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