Idea #21495: optionally assign unique usernames to groups to provide a flat, human-assigned identifier space - Arvados

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Idea #21495

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optionally assign unique usernames to groups to provide a flat, human-assigned identifier space

Added by Peter Amstutz 3 months ago. Updated about 2 months ago.

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New

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Normal

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API

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Future

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Postponed

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Auto

Description

This is just an idea, but a lot of platforms use a flat namespace for users and groups (github, for example). Arvados has several addressing modes (uuids, content addresses, unique names within projects) but lacks a system wide flat human-managed namespace (with the exception of usernames on user accounts).

We could add an optional "username" field to groups (maybe even collections?) which would share a uniqueness index with users, groups could then be optionally assigned a username which could be used as an alternate, friendlier name for access via APIs like keep-web.