[petsc-dev] petsc-dev on bitbucket

[Jed Brown]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 23:50, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Jed Brown wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 23:36, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > > > > Credential management is simpler because adding/removing keys and
> > > similar
> > > > > can be done by the user instead of by emailing Satish.
> > > >
> > > > replaced by  'crate a bitbucket account - and email sean your
> bitbucket
> > > id'
> > > >
> > > > so eqivalent.
> > >
> > > ok - I see your point. First step is equivalent. Later change of
> > > keys/passwd is up to the user and doesn't involve e-mail [ with
> > > bitbucket.]
> >
> > exactly
>
> Just want to mention: this model [each user have their own account,
> and access shared repos] is the historical model with vcs [sharinv via
> unix group permissions]
>

This is actually a quite different model.


>
> And we migrated to ssh key management as superior -and abandoned the
> previous model. Firstly because the repos were at mcs - and accounts
> were not easy for non mcs folks - and then not dealing with groups was
> nicer. And when petsc.cs.iit as deployed [eventhough I could easily
> deal with user accounts and groups]- it was preferable to stick with
> ssh key model instead of user account model. [with the aversion we
> gradually developed for maintaing multiple accounts/multiple paswds
> all over].
>

The permissions issues with this are a mess.


>
> Now we are back to the original model of user account - and access via
> this account [yes - bitbucket makes it easier to crate accounts, and
> hopefully better infrastrucutre than 'group permission' for sharing
> underneath. [well atleat there is a gui to it].
>

With Bitbucket, GitHub, and all the others, the web account is *not* a unix
account. It's just a way to manage identity/keys. Everyone using ssh has
hg at bitbucket.org (and git at github.com, etc).
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