[jira] [Closed] (INFRA-8241) Create ASF account to be shared by Spark team for project infrastructure

["David Nalley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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David Nalley closed INFRA-8241.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

Hi Patrick: 

So a couple of comments. We won't create a role account for purposes like this. (At least none of the below seems justifiable.) 

WRT github - you can amend the commit message before pushing to include "closes $foo" where $foo is a the PR number.
See: https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-via-commit-messages 
You'll likely have to use git commit --amend to do so.  

Why not put RCs up here:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/spark/ 
That space is specifically intended for things like RCs. 
That location also means that promoting the RCs to the release portion of dist.a.o will be much easier. (svn mv) 

> Create ASF account to be shared by Spark team for project infrastructure
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>
>                 Key: INFRA-8241
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8241
>             Project: Infrastructure
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Patrick Wendell
>
> For a few reasons, it would be really helpful if we could have an ASF account for shared use by the Spark committership.
> One is to have an account for maintenance commits for our github repo. Because we aren't able to close pull requests in our github account, we need to create "dummy" commits that exist for the purpose of closing issues. It doesn't really make sense for a specific commiter to have a bunch of commits floating around just for the purpose of closing issues. 
> Metrics like commit count are something that people pay attention to, so I was hoping to have a separate git identity for this. Have any other projects done anything like this?
> It would also be nice to have an account like this for posting release candidates so that we can provide a reference location where release candidate are always posted and it isn't sensitive to the specific release manager. I.e. something like
> http://people.apache.org/~apachespark/latest-rc
> The credentials of the account can be shared internally on our private list.



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