Finding contributor email is imposible - was - Re: Phabricator: All repositories registered - upcoming workflow changes

[Michael Pyne]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 11:35:15PM +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El diumenge, 29 de gener de 2017, a les 8:32:21 CET, Ben Cooksley va escriure:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > From this point forward, communities should be moving away from
> > Reviewboard to Phabricator for conducting code review. Sysadmin will
> > be announcing a timeline for the shutdown of Reviewboard in the near
> > future.
> 
> Today i wanted to commit https://phabricator.kde.org/D4432 since the person 
> that opened it does not have a developer account.
>  <snip>
>
> ouch, so i need his email, where do i get it?
> 
> Nowhere it seems.
> 
> I resorted to searching for it in identity.kde.org but i think that i can only 
> do that because i have some special power over there that allows me to see 
> everyone's email, and even if everyone can, it's very cumbsersome, and 
> probably what i would end up doing is asking in Differential, the author would 
> have to answer, potentially either him or me forgetting about it.

In fairness to Phabricator there's been times where I've needed
developer contact info *without* having a RR available.  In the "good
old days" we'd just use the kde-common/accounts file to lookup the
developer's id and corresponding email address, and that worked fine.

So I think Identity (and in general whatever our KDE organizational
directory solution happens to be) is the proper solution -- although it
shouldn't need superpowers to actually see those identities.  And of
course, there's no reason not to also show the email in Phabricator,
which would be more helpful and developer-friendly.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne