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[William Grant <william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/05/11 12:47, Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> On 2011-05-24 00:17, Elliot Murphy wrote:
> 
>> I think the same capability (of having an account used by a non-human
>> to read and write to launchpad) is needed by plenty of people outside
>> of launchpad (anyone using Tarmac), so a single celebrity user sounds
>> like a solution that would not solve this problem for everyone.
> 
> We're talking about entirely different things.  I'm not trying to solve
> a problem for everyone, just for Launchpad itself.  And I don't think
> there is a problem of Launchpad code not having the capability to read
> and write to Launchpad!
> 
> The specific problem at hand is that of Launchpad itself not existing as
> a person in Launchpad, but Launchpad's code sometimes doing things that
> require a Person object to represent itself.
> 
> Such a Person should be a celebrity because Launchpad code would need it
> as a fixed identity in several places.

But Launchpad is not the only robot talking to Launchpad. It is a
general problem, and a special-case solution that works for internal
code is probably not a very good solution at all.

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