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

[Barry Smith]

On Feb 10, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
>>  I am totally confused. Why can I use my BarryFSmith account to admin repositories people make and push and pull repositories but suddenly when I want to have admin at the petsc level I need to use this other "openid" thing?????? Why, why why?
> 
> 
> Hmm openid is orthongonal. As I understand things - its just a
> machanism to not maintain yet-another-passwd-for-yet-another-site.
> 
> [i.e setup openid with any openid provider. and then user this
> credential to login to accounts at 10 different sites. Obviously each
> site will track you as a different user - so they like to give you a
> user name].
> 
> But you can ignore this - and do a userid/passwd just for bitbucket.
> 
> The model is:
> 
> you have an 'account' - and can create repos there. Now you are the
> owner of the repos.
> 
> Then you can give 'admin' privilidges to other 'account' users on any
> given repo. And also create groups to give read/write permissions
> etc..
> 
> So they have this distinction of 'owner' vs 'admin' [and I think only
> owner can delete repos]

   Yes and I submit that model of owner and admin is fundamentally broken.   Sean claims he can set it up so more than one of us can access the petsc (owner account) but only using openid not the bitbucket password; this strange limitation is what provoked my why why why

   Barry

> 
> Satish