Re: Allow non-packagers to push to dist-git forks without fedpkg

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On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 9:54 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> what would it take to allow non-packagers to push to dist-git forks without fedpkg?
>
> The instructions at
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/ci/pull-requests/#_you_are_not_a_packager
> assume they run Fedora (or another distro with fedpkg), but this is extremely
> unfriendly to contributors who run other distros.
>
> The alternative is external pull request which is awesome in theory but quite
> tedious in practice. E.g. as a package maintainer, I cannot push my changes to
> a proposed external pull request.
>
> If I understand correctly, SSH access is a security/legal/whatever no-go for
> nonpackagers, but can we offer some kind of standard git mechanism to
> authenticate? API tokens maybe?
>
> If not, can we at least extract the fedpkg bits that do this and release that
> as a standalone easy-to-install software that we can offer or even package to
> other distributions?
>

We should just turn on Pagure's ability to let you create API tokens
that can do HTTPS auth for git push on src.fedoraproject.org. The
janky setup we have now predates introducing support in Pagure itself.




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