Package Authentication and Pushing to Pull Requests

[CSSFrancis]

Describe the bug
I'm not exactly sure what the best way to handle this is but I've been struggling to push to other peoples branches as a maintainer. The main issue appears to be something to do with 3rd party authentication

https://docs.github.com/articles/restricting-access-to-your-organization-s-data/

I think that added security is a good thing but I was curious if people had different ways of getting around this? I haven't been able to get either the command line or PyCharm to work for this, but maybe I just have the wrong access key associated pushing to GitHub.

@ericpre Do you have a suggestion for the right way to handle/do this?

[CSSFrancis]

I requested oauth permissions per

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-your-membership-in-organizations/requesting-organization-approval-for-oauth-apps

How do we feel about this? I think this should be fine.

[pc494]

Has this improved since you were bumped up to maintainer? Being able to push to other branches tends to be an exception rather than a rule on Github in my experience.

[pc494]

For what it's worth, in pyxem/orix#469 I tried to use the CLI instructions at the bottom to push changes to a contributors branch (which did not work). However taking the pull request down (tiny little button, see image)

did seem to work...

[CSSFrancis]

@pc494 (and anyone else who is having problems with this) it seems like you need to make sure that the oauth is allowed for some third party application. Otherwise I think you need to be very specific about how you are authenticating to make sure that GitHub doesn't block it.

Requisition oauth above seemed to work well!

[ericpre]

Sorry I don't know, but it sounds about right that it is related to third party permission or authentication to github.

I had a similar issue, when trying to push to a bot branch in conda-forge repositories (which was previously working). In that case, this may have been related to changes in GitHub itself, or settings in the conda-forge organisation or my authentication to GitHub.... sorry, not very helpful!

[CSSFrancis]

Closed. This seems to be a 3rd party application verificiation issue that I have fixed now.