When mirroring repo don't use name of user configuring the mirror for activity
Problem to solve
When setting up a mirrored project, e.g. from GitHub.com, all the events are shown as by the user creating the mirror.
Places where this has undesired effect:
- Contribution graph and activity feed on the user profile shows all activity for the sync, giving a false image of the actual contributions
- Activity page on the project shows all pushes as being from the single user
- CI pipeline shows as being triggered by the user (several places in the web ui, on Slack, in the email report)
- The user receives email on pipeline failure for commits not belonging to that user.
Intended users
Unknown
Further details
Proposal
- Create a dummy mirror user and indicate the activity is from the mirror user
- Check if the user name of the last commit in the push matches contributors/members of the project, or the value of the push user in the gitlab.com webhook body, indicate activity is from this user
- Combination of above, but don't add data to the contribution graph/link the activity directly to the user - rather just show the username/email in the event
left out the other headings in the template, hope that's okay