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

[Barry Smith]

On Feb 10, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> 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.

  What, something BitBucket didn't steal?   Git here I come.


> 
> 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.