Use aliases as a way to merge groups

[jwflory]

Many different sub-projects and groups in Fedora are inconsistent with the meeting names they use when starting meetings with zodbot. Sometimes this is unintentional, sometimes it is just not being aware that consistent meeting names are important.

Until recently, my understanding was that aliases were a solution to this by "merging" different group names together under a singular, common group name. However, it does not seem to work this way.

Solution

Proposed solution is to have groups defined in the category_mappings.json file or similar. Groups could then have multiple aliases for what their meeting names could be, and then all meetings with those meeting names are lumped together via aliases.

Use Case

• Group that is meeting: Fedora LATAM Ambassadors
• Group name in møte: latam_ambassadors
• Potentially used meeting names:
  • fedora_latam_ambassadors
  • latam_ambassadors
  • latam
  • fedora_latam
  • fedora_latam_ambassadors_meeting

And so on. If any of these meeting names were used, via aliases, they would all be sorted together under the meetings for "Fedora LATAM Ambassadors".