Bug#963210: qa.debian.org: DDPO still using old name

[Martina Ferrari <tina@debian.org>]

Hi Raúl,

I had spent some time understanding carnivore, and found the reason why 
this was happening, but in the end I never got around to implementing a 
fix.. So thank you for taking the time to look into this!

As you guessed, i would prefer not to have my deadname show at all, and 
to have all my packages merged under one identity.

Let me know if I can assist in any way.

Thanks a lot, Martina.

On 03/04/2021 00:45, Raúl Benencia wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 05:07:43PM +0100, Martina Ferrari wrote:
> > In the past months, I have been gradually switching all my online identities to
> > my new name (Martina) and uid/nick (Tina). I have changed emails, GPG keys, and
> > finally my Debian LDAP uid.
>
> Hola Martina! Long time. :-)
>
> I did some research to get to the bottom of this issue. I'll be verbose
> describing what I found in hopes of it being useful for similar issues in the
> future.
>
> The source of your deadname is in a database that DDPO uses under the hood
> called carnivore[1]. I think your case might be very similar to #706260. In your
> case, names are being merged[2] because there are still some packages that use
> your deadname.
>
> In quants, qa.debian.org, if you check the file
> /srv/qa.debian.org/carnivore/uids you might see something like this:
>
> | martina ferrari <tina@debian.org>: email:tina@debian.org
> | martina ferrari <tincho@debian.org>: email:tina@debian.org
> | martín ferrari <tincho@debian.org>: email:tina@debian.org
>
> I haven't confirmed this—I don't have access to quants—but I tried it locally
> after running extract_data myself.
>
> You can explicitly state[3] that you don't want your name to be merged with your
> deadname, at the cost of unlinking the two uids. If you add[3] "Martina
> Ferrari", then the result will be:
>
> | martina ferrari <tina@debian.org>: email:tina@debian.org
> |
> | martina ferrari <tincho@debian.org>: email:tincho@debian.org
> | martín ferrari <tincho@debian.org>: email:tincho@debian.org
>
> This approach has the disadvantage that you'll stop seeing all packages in a
> single page; probably not what you want, so I kept digging.
>
> The developer.wml[4] file shows that it chooses the first name of all the
> indexed names. A possible solution is to somehow set your name at the beginning
> of that list. Another solution can be to state that you prefer a single name on
> the DB.
>
> I wrote a patch that implements this last solution, allowing you to state a
> preferred name. I'm still testing it, but I'll try to submit it for review on
> the weekend.
>
> nota bene: it's the first time I'm interacting with this codebase so I might be
> entirely wrong. \o/
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/c850ab59/carnivore/README#L12-13
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/c850ab59/carnivore/extract_data#L85
> [3] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/c850ab59/carnivore/extract_data#L82
> [4] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/c850ab59/wml/developer.wml#L1654

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Martina Ferrari (Tina)