[petsc-dev] please make myself and Satish admin on bitbucket.org/petsc

[Jed Brown]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 17:01, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> > What if I don't have an openid?
> >
> > Everything uses OpenID now and bitbucket uses it too. I went over this
> with you last time. Your gmail, facebook, yahoo, etc. are all automatically
> OpenIDs.
>
>  I sure don't want to use my facebook account
>

Ssshhh, don't let the whole world know you have a facebook account. Then
you can't play the curmudgeon at the lunch table.


> to access work related stuff, that is absurd.
>

I have a username and password on bitbucket. It's not linked to gmail or
facebook.


>
> >
> > petsc is another account like barryfsmith is an account? Who designed
> this monstrosity?
> >
> > Of course 'petsc' is another account. How else would it work?
>
>   Bitbucket should have a concept of "accounts" (each of us has one of
> these) and "repository trees" (which can be equally shared by one or more
> accounts).  To use accounts to hold a repository tree is moronic because it
> makes unsymmetric the relationship between the owner of the account that
> owns the repository tree and the other accounts that can do stuff with that
> repository tree.  So what other idiotic decisions did these morons make?
>

Github has a special kind of account for "organizations". It just makes
repository/access management simpler and the front pages more intuitive.

https://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations (blog)

https://github.com/enthought (example)


Bitbucket has a thing called "groups", but it's not really the same.
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