Open Stack

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> What we need to decide is whether we make some
> best-effort attempt to map up what accounts we can, or just punt and
> expect everyone to end up with new accounts. I'm open to either
> option but others may have stronger opinions on continuity there.

As far as I know, wiki edits are not something that are tracked with
metrics (at least, not in any meaningful way?) like other things in
the project. You don't get ATC from them, there is not a firm tie with
any other work in the project. It's one of the things I would be open
to lacking continuity over time by making a firm break and have people
set up new accounts on, given the amount of work that a username
remapping has.

But there are a couple issues off the top of my head with making
everyone start with new accounts:

1. Configuration of user settings on the wiki is not very complicated,
with the exception of the Watchlist of pages you get notifications
for. That's a setting that would be a pain to replicate if you
couldn't log into your old account and copy things over, especially if
anyone is using the wiki heavily and is depending on these
notifications to not lose track of pages (I'm not sure if anyone is).

2. Unpreferred username used, for instance, I'm "Lyz" now, so I'd
be... Lyz2? Lyz_? Messy.
2a. We could delete all old accounts, but then you lose
who-edited-what history, which can be valuable.

Finally, whatever we do any automated tooling that posts to the wiki
will need accounts set up in OpenStackID too in order to continue
posting. Not a huge deal, but worthy to keep in mind since it would
need to be timed properly so we don't lose automated posts due to
failures to log in.

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2