manageOrg - Python

This provides a simple method for managing a course Github org.

The manageOrg object in manageOrg.py will allow us to create assignment-specific repositories per user, and will allow us to control permissions to those repos.

Configuration

Say we are teaching CPSCNNN in term M of session YYYYS and have been allocated the github org:

CPSCNNNN-YYYYS-TM

Changes to github are authorized via a personal access token; to create a token, visit github.students.cs.ubc.ca/settings/tokens. Create a token with scope 'repo' (Full control of private repositories).

The tool is configured via environment variables. For example, you could put something like this in your ~/.bash_profile:

export GHE_ORG=CPSCNNN-YYYYS-TM
export GHE_TOKEN=personalaccesstoken

Alternatively, you can set environment variables in a custom python script (don't change manageGHE.py):

#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
os.environ['GHE_ORG']='CPSCNNN-YYYYS-TM'
os.environ['GHE_TOKEN']='personalaccesstoken'

Manual access to the tool is easy; set the above environment variables and run:

python3 -i manageGHE.py

This will leave you at the python command prompt as if you had done this instead:

$ python3
>>> from manageGHE import manageGHE
>>> m = manageGHE()

Student Listing

You may have a 'students' team that contains your automatically-synchronized classlist. (If you do not, ask [email protected] and we'll configure it for you.) You can query the membership of this team via:

students = m.getTeamMembership('students')

Repositories

Concepts:

• Assignmment repos are of the form <assignmentName>_<userID> (one repo per user).
• The tool expects to find a 'staff' team in the org and will assign this team permissions to each repo as directed.
• You can create repos empty, or you can use a 'template' repo.
• All changes are logged specifically.

Repo creation

Subsequent runs of this command simply ignore repos that already exist (by name).

m.createAssnRepos('assn1', students)
m.createAssnRepos('assn1', students, template='CPSCNNN-YYYYS-TM/assn1Template')

Permission setting

Note the default permissions for userPerms/staffPerms/adminPerms is None, which means don't do anything. Only explicitly specified permissions will be updated.

m.setAssnPerms('assn1', userPerms='push')

Repo deletion

A function is provided to delete repos. Please use with caution. Your token will need the delete_repo scope. This function should only be used in the course of testing the operation of the tool. It is recommended to remove the delete_repo token scope immediately after successful cleanup.

m.deleteAssnRepos('assn1')