Open Stack

On Tue, May 14, 2019, at 11:41 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2019-05-13 13:49:44 -0400 (-0400), Clark Boylan wrote:
> [...]
> > we discussed if OpenDev would be an appropriate location for
> > throwaway repos and unfortunately we don't think we are there yet.
> > Gerrit currently won't scale to that use case for us.
> [...]
> 
> Thinking about this a little more, what if we allowed personal
> sandboxes in Gerrit and just didn't wrap them in all the other
> replication, CI and general formality we do for normal repositories?
> Gerrit will allow you to grant access to paths with "$user" in
> them[*], of which WMF's[**] and some other deployments take
> advantage to that end.

These are ref paths not repo paths. Are you thinking every user could have a single scratch space repo then have arbitrary refs within that repo?

> 
> [*] 
> https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/access-control.html#_project_access_control_lists
> [**] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/personal_sandbox
> -- 
> Jeremy Stanley