On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
On 9/14/06, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey packagedb and accounts2 people,
As part of filling the test packageDB with data, I'm working on a
script
that pulls information out of owners.list and enters it into the
packageDB. One of the problems is that I've got 631 errors where an
email address in owners.list doesn't match with anyone in the current
accounts system. So I need to get a handle on how we can fix these
issues both short-term and long-term.
Unfortunately this is a common problem. I too fit into this category.
The new accounting system should probably account for a users
bugzilla email. The difficulty is in verifying this and not just
trusing what the user says though I don't really know what damage they
could do.
As long as the new account system allows for multiple email
addresses, that should be sufficient. Perhaps down the road it will
be useful to add an 'is_bugzilla_account' field in the table listing
the email addresses for each account. However, even that is
unnecessary if the applications in question have access to the list
of all bugzilla accounts and to the new account DB.
There is also the corner case to consider where people have multiple
bugzilla accounts for their multiple e-mail addresses.
Best,
-- Elliot
