Re: drm-misc migration to Gitlab server

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at 11:57, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> wrote:
>> > For the recent-ish subscriptions, it's possible since we've required to
>> > open a Gitlab issue for a while, so we have the association between the
>> > Gitlab account and the SSH account already.
>> >
>> > During the Gitlab setup, the groups were also created already with the
>> > people that had an SSH account at the time, and Gitlab account.
>> >
>> > But for the rest, yeah, I had to ping Daniel S. about it. He could find
>> > a few matches, but there's some where we just don't know if or what the
>> > Gitlab account is.
>> >
>> > Generally speaking, we've been conservative about it, and only added
>> > accounts we were sure of.
>>
>> Ah, I didn't make myself clear. I'm more interested in the process going
>> forward, for new access requests. Anyone can create an account and
>> request access; how does a maintainer verify the request? For our
>> purposes it's basically just matching againt the email addresses in
>> existing commits in the repo.
>
> It's a fair question. If you want to verify that someone is
> @intel.com, maybe get them to email you out-of-band to check it. If
> you want to check something else, just ask an admin I suppose.

I thought you wanted not to be bothered with access requests! ;D

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel