[almighty] Subdomains and Model

[Todd Mancini]

If I use URLs to explain my expectations, it goes like this:

almighty.io -- home page of the system
almighty.io/userid -- profile page of user
almighty.io/userid/projname -- Project 'projname' created by User 'userid'
almighty.io/orgid -- home page of Org 'orgid'
almighty.io/orgid/projname -- Project 'projname' created within
Organization 'orgid'

I'd stay away from subdomains for now -- I think we want to promote URLs
like above. (Sure, we could have subdomains do a redirect, but let's not
even bother with that for now.)

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Thomas Mäder <tmader at redhat.com> wrote:

>  Hi Len,
> On 26.11.2016 04:20, Leonard Dimaggio wrote:
>
> Don't we want users to always/only exist in the context of a project?
>
> -- Len
>
> I think we definitely don't want that. If ,like me for example, you are a
> member of 4 organizations, you would have to have 4 different Identities
> (and probably logins). Not cool!
>
> I think github gets this totally right: you have roots (accounts which
> have their own subdomains or root url's), that can belong to an
> organisation or an individual. You can create project inside every root
> where you have sufficient privileges. You log into the system, not a
> particular subdomain. You always log in as a person, not an organization.
> The rest is metadata and permissions.
>
> I think the whole idea gets easier to think about when we separate
> containment of assets (projects, issues, etc.) from control over assets.
> Think about it this way: if a user was a container for projects, any
> project belonging to an organization I'm a member of would contain the
> projects that the user contains (containment being transitive). This makes
> no sense.
>
> *The simplest way to model the problem that fulfills the requirements for
> me is to introduce the concept of an account. Think of it like a bank
> account. You can open a personal account or one for your company. For a
> personal account, you are naturally the "super user", you can put money in
> your account, you can close the account, etc. With a company account, you
> need a designated person (or multiple persons) that have the "super user"
> privilege for that account. If we want to work with subdomains, each
> account gets its own subdomain.*
>
> Note that subdomains can be nothing but an alternative addressing scheme
> for things. For example, we have system-unique ids for work items, so we
> can always address them with almighty.io/workitems/<id>. Hence, we can
> just rewrite an url containing a subdomain by removing the subdomain. The
> important question is whether the subdomains act as a namespace. Can you
> have the same project name twice in different subdomains or not?
>
> /Thomas
>
>
>
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