make owner --add work with rubygems.org username

[grosser]

So i can do

gem owner --add grosser

without needing to know what email this person is signed up with / without telling people my email

[adkron]

This will also require a change to rubygems not just rubygems.org.

Here is the link to the file that would need changed over there.
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/master/lib/rubygems/commands/owner_command.rb

👍 the idea.

[qrush]

This is the first request for this I've heard since I started the project. I don't feel disclosing your email is that huge of a deal over a username. It's on your github profile, it's on your rubygems profile, it's just an email. If there's a stronger argument to make let's hear it, otherwise 🔫

[jkeiser]

@qrush the stronger argument at the moment is that I'd like to be able to automate the adding / removing of owners to my rather large set of gems ... and some of the APIs (like api/v1/owners/USERNAME/gems.json) refer to users by usernames and some (like api/v1/gems/GEMNAME/owners.json) refer to users by email. It would nice to be able to use one of these as the identity throughout--would make my life simpler--but if not, I could use an API (profile API?) to find out the user's email from their username (or vice versa).

[jkeiser]

@qrush there is also the fact that apparently you can hide your email.

It also occurs to me: we don't seem to even report the username of the owner in the rubygems owners API. Is there any way at all to get the username of a user from the email?

[indirect]

FWIW, this has also been a problem for me in the past, because my public email address and my rubygems email address aren't the same. I would like to be able to add and remove by username.

[qrush]

Those all seem like reasonable arguments.

[jkeiser]

@qrush I'm going to reopen this based on your last comment ... please feel free to open a more specific bug if you feel one of the alternate solutions would work better :)

[jkeiser]

Oh! It looks like I can't reopen. @qrush would you prefer that I make a new one, or would you rather reopen?

Thanks!

[qrush]

👍