How to determine FAS from BZ email?

[Johannes Lips]

Isn't it easiest to just ask for the FAS name of the person who wants to
become a packager? I don't really see how this should be less efficient
than searching the mail address in the FAS database.


On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Jamie Nguyen <jamie at tomoyolinux.co.uk>wrote:

> Thomas Spura <tomspur at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Jamie Nguyen <jamie at tomoyolinux.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >> Thomas Spura wrote:
> >>> 2012/2/23 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com>:
> >>>> But I find incredibly hard to find relation between bugzilla email
> and FAS
> >>>> account.
> >>>> How do you do this check?
> >>>
> >>> Show all useres in the cla_signed group [3] and search for the mail
> >>> address. When it's not there it may be overritten in [4].
> >>> When it's not there either, the user has not signed cla yet and cannot
> >>> be a packager, yet.
> >>
> >> You can't be a packager without signing the CLA, but you can sign the
> >> CLA without being a packager.
> >
> > Yes, no cla -> no packager, like I wrote above.
> > When someone has signed the cla, you then need to look if the user is
> > already member of the packager group...
>
> Perhaps I misunderstand, but I think the real problem is that the
> email used for bugzilla doesn't have to be the same as the email
> specified when signing up for a FAS account. So if the bugzilla email
> isn't found in FAS, it doesn't necessarily mean that they don't yet
> have a FAS account. Similarly, it also doesn't necessarily mean that
> they haven't signed the CLA yet.
>
> I don't know how these queries are done, but I would have thought that
> if you can query whether any members of the CLA group have the email
> address in question, you might as well query the Packager group from
> the start.
>
>
> Jamie
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