[Buildbot-devel] Seeking Input for User Object Attributes

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Derek Hurley <dzhurley at gmail.com> wrote:
> My name is Derek, although some of you may know me as redheadphones on
> #buildbot, and I'm working on implementing User Objects thanks to Google
> Summer of Code. As I brainstorm and design what users will eventually be to
> Buildbot, I'd like to receive any/all input from other Buildbot developers
> as to what users should look like. Specifically, what sort of attributes you
> feel would be beneficial to have attached to users.

I'd answer this in two ways:

 1. It should be fairly open-ended: a new FacebookNotifier should have
a way to attach users facebook identifiers to a user, so that if I
trigger a build via IRC, it recognizes my nick, translates that to a
user object, and then when it comes time to notify me, uses the
facebook identifier from that user object to notify me.

 2. I'm most interested just in correlating multiple identifiers from
different systems that Buildbot talks to, but some additional display
information would be helpful, too - a name and some kind of link to a
user icon would be great (gravatar, maybe?).

Dustin