Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Moving more developer data to LDAP, for scalability/redundancy (away, foward, permissive, SMTP password, plan) [WAS: Suggestion to ask devs to change their bugzilla name]

On 6/11/10 5:27 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> - Ability to split woodpecker/dev.g.o up, and have an EU dev machine,
>   and a US dev machine. (If mail isn't being forwarded outside of our
>   systems, you would put in ${USERNAME}@eu.dev.gentoo.org.

Sounds good to me. Looks like it would have lower latency. :)

> Cons:
> - developers get changes to LDAP wrong already.
> 	= I counter that they ALSO change the wrong filenames and wonder why
> 	  there is no effect. I counted a large number of '.permissave',
> 	  '.devaway' and '.asmtppasswd' files.

Maybe we should have an easy way to compare how the system sees it
versus how the user sees it? For example some command/script that would say:

.away file: missing
(... similar checks for other files/things omitted here ...)

And then a person who has created a .devaway file can notice the
discrepancy.

> - complaints that LDAP is too hard to use.

Maybe we need better scripts and better documentation? I think the main
problem might be that LDAP is too alien for many people.

My opinion: I have no problem using Gentoo LDAP, but would appreciate
some usability improvements. :)

> - need to remember your LDAP password!

D'oh, I guess it's always required, for example to update the
description displayed on the roll call. By the way, it looks like this
is the reason why the description is sometimes outdated.

Paweł