SVN users (was: Re: Minor feature requests)

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:28:51PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
>...
> 2) Very minor: the cvs commit messages come out with from addresses like
> 'joe@tigris.org' which is not a live e-mail address... maybe the from
> address could be changed to cvs@subversion.tigris.org or something?

Interesting point here.

In SVN, the users will be records on the HTTP server. If we spin out a hook
to call a script, then the email address will need to be looked up from
somewhere. Invariably, there will be *no* user accounts on the SVN server,
so user@svnhost is not going to work.

Just another thought...

Oh. Stream of consciousness. It would be possible for us to formalize a
collection on the server which has resources corresponding to each user. On
those resources, we could attach properties.

For example:

  http://svnhost/repos/path/$svn/users/
  http://svnhost/repos/path/$svn/users/joe
  http://svnhost/repos/path/$svn/users/gstein
  http://svnhost/repos/path/$svn/users/kfogel

We can then create an SVN:email property on those resources (or possibly use
some standardized ones from Dublin Core).

Note that this would *only* be about recording per-user information. There
would be no authentication information stored in there.

[ well. hmm. actually, we damn well could. mod_dav_svn could easily hook the
  Apache auth process and look up a password out of those resources (as a
  sort of "default" mechanism, but the admin could always select other
  Apache auth systems). and hell, those resources are just going to be
  another BDB table ]

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/