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  1. Qt Quality Assurance Infrastructure
  2. QTQAINFRA-536

git-receive-pack is a bit too quick to create accounts

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P2: Important
    • 2014q2
    • 2012q1
    • Gerrit
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      when using the --reviewer/--cc options, gerrit will create a new account for every arbitrary string for which it does not find a match.

      while one could argue that it makes sense to auto-create new accounts to lower the barrier to entry, i think this feature is utterly counter-productive in practice:

      • you get no feedback whatsoever if you make a typo
      • the feature is unintuitive, as nobody would actually expect it to be there. also, it's entirely unclear to me how one would take ownership of such an auto-created account. does it even integrate with the crowd authenticator?
      • the database is spammed with accounts

      i presume the same applies to the automatically added reviewers from reviewed-by footers in pushed commits.

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            ishaataj Ismo Haataja
            buddenha Oswald Buddenhagen
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