On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 08:21:49AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 apr 20, 19:27:53, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 10:04:55AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > I must be missing something so I'm asking: what is the *benefit* of > > > avoiding collisions with Debian accounts? > > > > > foo@salsa.debian.org and foo@debian.org both existing and referring to > > different people risks causing confusion. I'd like to understand why > > we're going that way. > > If I understand correctly, then, using the -guest suffix would allow for > foo-guest@salsa.debian.org and foo@debian.org both existing and > referring to different people. > > In my opinion this still doesn't significantly reduce the risk of > confusion while also being quite unfriendly should the foo-guest user > ever wish to become a Debian Member. This is why having a central approach to account creation, rather than distributed, is worth considering. I'm in favour of usernames not changing because one's role changes but that does not mean I'm favour of divergent namespaces. -- Luca Filipozzi
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