[Qt-creator] [Development] [FYI] on gerrit change retargeting requests

[Christian Kandeler]

On 09/06/2016 11:46 AM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> 06.09.2016, 12:44, "Oswald Buddenhagen" <oswald.buddenhagen at qt.io>:
>> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:17:59PM +0000, J-P Nurmi wrote:
>>>  On 05 Sep 2016, at 19:27, Marc Mutz <marc.mutz at kdab.com> wrote:
>>>  > It's not about restricting what a user can do. It's simply missing
>>>  > implementation, and I believe that if it were easy to implement,
>>>  > Ossi would have done it long ago instead of playing retarget-monkey
>>>  > for the rest of us :)
>>>
>>>  Doing it through the web UI would be a nice bonus, but having access
>>>  to the same script that is already used by the admins would be good
>>>  enough for starters.
>>
>> yep - because i'm totally going to give everyone full write access to
>> the database. ;)
>>
>> if you make a secure web frontend that authenticates against qt account
>> and verifies change ownership using the gerrit ssh interface, i'm
>> totally willing to deploy that. ;)
> 
> Idea: IRC bot accepting retarget requests, with rate limit e.g. one request per minute. Bot runs on host with db access and can do only this one thing.

We already have that bot, but it's on varation at the moment.


Christian