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A tool to manage identities

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Description

A tool to manage identities.

Sorting Hat maintains an SQL database with identities coming (potentially) from different sources. Identities corresponding to the same real person can be merged in the same unique identity, with a unique uuid. For each unique identity, a profile can be defined, with the name and other data to show for the corresponding person by default.

In addition, each unique identity can be related to one or more affiliations, for different time periods. This will usually correspond to different organizations in which the person was employed during those time periods.

Sorting Hat is a part of the GrimoireLab toolset, which provides for Python modules and scripts to analyze data sources with information about software development, and allows to produce interactive dashboards to visualize that information.

In the context of GrimoireLab, Sorting Hat is usually run after data is retrieved with Perceval, to store the identities obtained into its database, and later merge them into unique identities (and maybe affiliate them).

Source code and contributions

All the source code is available in the Sorting Hat GitHub repository. Please, upload pull requests if you have proposals to change the source code, and open an issue if you want to report a bug, ask for a new feature, or just comment something.

Usage

usage: sortinghat [--help] [-c <file>] [-u <user>] [-p <password>]
                  [--host <host>] [--port <port>] [-d <name>]
                  command [<cmd_args>]

The most commonly used sortinghat commands are:

    add          Add identities
    affiliate    Affiliate identities
    autogender   Auto complete gender data
    autoprofile  Auto complete profiles
    blacklist    List, add or delete entries from the blacklist
    config       Get and set configuration parameters
    countries    List information about countries
    enroll       Enroll identities into organizations
    export       Export data (i.e identities) from the registry
    init         Create an empty registry
    load         Import data (i.e identities, organizations) on the registry
    merge        Merge unique identities
    mv           Move an identity into a unique identity
    log          List enrollment information available in the registry
    orgs         List, add or delete organizations and domains
    profile      Edit profile
    rm           Remove identities from the registry
    show         Show information about a unique identity
    unify        Merge identities using a matching algorithm
    withdraw     Remove identities from organizations

General options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c FILE, --config FILE
                        set configuration file
  -u USER, --user USER  database user name
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        database user password
  -d DATABASE, --database DATABASE
                        name of the database where the registry will be stored
  --host HOST           name of the host where the database server is running
  --port PORT           port of the host where the database server is running

Run 'sortinghat <command> --help' to get information about a specific command.

Installation

From pypi

You can install sortinghat as a package from the pypi repository:

$ pip install sortinghat

Native

You can install sortinghat just by running setup.py script:

$ python setup.py install

This will install it in the python default directories in your system.

If you don’t install sortinghat with root privileges, or don’t want to install it in the default directories, you can also use the source code directory, as cloned from the main git repo. It is enough to configure your $PATH and $PYTHONPATH so that sortinghat, and the Python modules it needs, are found.

Add to your $PATH the directory which contains the sortinghat executables:

$ export PATH=$PATH:sortinghatdir/bin

In $PYHTONPATH, you need to include sortinghat as well. If sortinghatdir is the path where sortinghat is installed:

$ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:sortinghatdir

You are ready to use sortinghat!

Docker

You can use our image from DockerHub (grimoirelab/sortinghat) and skip the docker build step. If you prefer to build the image yourself execute:

$ docker build -t grimoirelab/sortinghat .

Next step would be to start a MySQL docker container for data storage:

$ docker run --name mysql \
             -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=sortinghat \
             -d mysql

Run the sortinghat docker container in interactive mode:

$ docker run -i -t --rm \
             --link mysql:mysql \
             -e SORTINGHAT_DB_HOST=mysql \
             -e SORTINGHAT_DB_PASSWORD=sortinghat \
             -e SORTINGHAT_DB_DATABASE=sortinghat \
             grimoirelab/sortinghat \
             /bin/bash

Now you can initialize sortinghat with the database name sortinghat:

$ sortinghat init sortinghat

You are ready to use sortinghat and explore the commands documented below. Have fun!

Configuration

Set the database parameters via the config command:

$ sortinghat config set db.host <mysql-host>
$ sortinghat config set db.user <user>
$ sortinghat config set db.password <password>
$ sortinghat config set db.database <name>
$ sortinghat config set db.port <port>

Alternatively you can set environment variables:

$ export SORTINGHAT_DB_HOST=<mysql-host>
$ export SORTINGHAT_DB_USER=<user>
$ export SORTINGHAT_DB_PASSWORD=<password>
$ export SORTINGHAT_DB_DATABASE=<name>
$ export SORTINGHAT_DB_PORT=<port>

After this initialize a new database:

$ sortinghat init <name>

Compatibility between versions

Python 2.7 is no longer supported. Any code using this version will not work. Please update your code to 3.4 or newer versions.

SortingHat databases previous to 0.7.0 are compatible but UTF-8 4-bytes characters will not be inserted in the database and causing errors. For this reason, it is recommended to update its schema. The fastest way is to dump the data into a file, regenerate the database with init command and restore the data from the dump.

SortingHat databases previous to 0.6.0 are no longer compatible. The database schema changed in profiles table to add the fields gender and gender_acc.

The next MySQL statements should be run to update the schema

mysql> ALTER TABLE profiles ADD COLUMN gender VARCHAR(32) DEFAULT NULL
mysql> ALTER TABLE profiles ADD COLUMN gender_acc INT(11) DEFAULT NULL

SortingHat databases previous to 0.5.0 are no longer compatible. The database schema changed in uidentites and identities tables to add the field last_modified to log when a record was updated.

The next MySQL statements should be run to update the schema

mysql> ALTER TABLE uidentities ADD COLUMN last_modified DATETIME(6) DEFAULT NULL
mysql> ALTER TABLE identities ADD COLUMN last_modified DATETIME(6) DEFAULT NULL

SortingHat databases previous to 0.3.0 are no longer compatible. The seed used to generate identities UUIDs changed and for that reason, these ids should be re-generated.

The next steps will restore the database generating new UUIDs for each identity but keeping the data and relationships between them.

  1. Export data

    $ sortinghat export --orgs orgs.json
    $ sortinghat export --identities identities.json
  2. Remove the database and/or create a new one with sortinghat init

  3. Load data, this will regenerate the UUIDs

    $ sortinghat load orgs.json
    $ sortinghat load identities.json

Basic commands

  • Add some unique identities ``` $ sortinghat add –name “John Smith” –email “jsmith@example.com” –username “jsmith” –source scm New identity a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9 to a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9

$ sortinghat add –name “John Doe” –email “jdoe@example.com” –source scm New identity 3de180633322e853861f9ee5f50a87e007b51058 added to 3de180633322e853861f9ee5f50a87e007b51058

* Set a profile

$ sortinghat profile –name “John Smith” –email “jsmith@example.com” –country US a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9 unique identity a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9

Profile: * Name: John Smith * E-Mail: jsmith@example.com * Bot: No * Country: US - United States of America

* Add an identity to an existing unique identity

$ sortinghat add –username “jsmith” –source mls –uuid a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9 New identity 2612aad107cae121b45c1f46041650abc8e39421 added to a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9

* Merge two identities

$ sortinghat merge a7637bb1737bc2a83f3a3e25b9b441cba62d97c2 a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9 Unique identity 3de180633322e853861f9ee5f50a87e007b51058 merged on a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9

* Move an identity into a unique identity

$ sortinghat mv 3de180633322e853861f9ee5f50a87e007b51058 3de180633322e853861f9ee5f50a87e007b51058 New unique identity 3de180633322e853861f9ee5f50a87e007b51058 created. Identity moved

* Remove a unique identity

$ sortinghat rm 3de180633322e853861f9ee5f50a87e007b51058 Unique identity 3de180633322e853861f9ee5f50a87e007b51058 removed

* Show identities information

$ sortinghat show unique identity a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9

Profile: * Name: John Smith * E-Mail: jsmith@example.com * Bot: No * Country: US - United States of America

Identities: 2612aad107cae121b45c1f46041650abc8e39421 - - jsmith mls a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9 John Smith jsmith@example.com jsmith scm

No enrollments

* Add some organizations

$ sortinghat orgs -a Example $ sortinghat orgs -a Bitergia $ sortinghat orgs -a Individual

* Add some domains to the organizations

$ sortinghat orgs -a Example example.com –top-domain $ sortinghat orgs -a Example web.example.com $ sortinghat orgs -a Bitergia bitergia.com –top-domain

* List organizations

$ sortinghat orgs Bitergia bitergia.com * Example example.com * Example web.example.com Individual

* Remove domains

$ sortinghat orgs -d Example web.example.com

* Remove organizations

$ sortinghat orgs -d Bitergia

* Enroll

$ sortinghat enroll –from 2014-06-01 –to 2015-09-01 a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9 Example $ sortinghat enroll –from 2015-09-01 a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9 Individual

* Show enrollments information

$ sortinghat show a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9 unique identity a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9

Profile: * Name: John Smith * E-Mail: jsmith@example.com * Bot: No * Country: US - United States of America

Identities: 2612aad107cae121b45c1f46041650abc8e39421 - - jsmith mls a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9 John Smith jsmith@example.com jsmith scm

Enrollments: Example 2014-06-01 00:00:00 2015-09-01 00:00:00 Individual 2015-09-01 00:00:00 2100-01-01 00:00:00

* Withdraw

$ sortinghat withdraw –from 2014-06-01 –to 2015-09-01 a9b403e150dd4af8953a52a4bb841051e4b705d9 Example

## Import / Export

* Import data from a Sorting Hat JSON file

$ sortinghat load sh.json Loading blacklist… Entry added to the blacklist 1/1 blacklist entries loaded Loading unique identities… + 00000ba7f563234e5f239e912f2df1021695122e (old 00000ba7f563234e5f239e912f2df1021695122e) loaded + 00003e37e7586be36c64ce4f9eafa89f11be2448 (old 00003e37e7586be36c64ce4f9eafa89f11be2448) loaded … + fa84729382093928570aef849483948489238498 (old fa84729382093928570aef849483948489238498) loaded 100/100 unique identities loaded

* Export identities

$ sortinghat export –identities sh_ids.json

* Export organizations

$ sortinghat export –orgs sh_orgs.json

## Requirements

* Python >= 3.4
* MySQL >= 5.6 or MariaDB 10.0
* SQLAlchemy >= 1.2
* Jinja2 >= 2.7
* python-dateutil >= 2.6
* python-yaml >= 3.12
* requests >= 2.9
* urllib3 >= 1.22

You will also need a MySQL Python driver to connect with the database server. We recommend using one these packages:

* PyMySQL

Optionally, you can install Pandas library to speed up the matching process:

* python-pandas >= 0.15

## Running tests

SortingHat comes with a comprehensive list of unit tests.
To run them, copy the file 'tests/tests.conf.sample' to 'tests/tests.conf'
and edit it to suit your configuration:

* `name`: Name of the database to use for testing
* `host`, `port`: How to access the database server (MySQL, MariaDB)
* `user`, `password`: Credentials for the database server
* `create`: Whether the database for testing will be created (`True`)
  or not (`False`, by default). If `True`, tests will fail if database
  already exists. If `False`, tests will fail if database does not exist.

You can run the tests through `setup.py` (no need to install dependencies
  or something else, `setup.py` will take care of that):

$ python3 setup.py test

## Troubleshooting

Once SortingHat has been installed, some errors may pop up when running the test suite due to the underlying MySQL
database configuration.

MySQL command should be executed without superuser privilege (sudo):

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO ‘root’@’localhost’ WITH GRANT OPTION; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

MySQL strict mode should be disabled:

mysql> SET @@global.sql_mode= ‘’; ```

License

Licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3 or later.

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