Teams API and ID

[smacker]

Currently to implement ACL we use github organizations & teams API.

Teams API is unstable:

Warning: The API may change without advance notice during the preview period. Preview features are not supported for production use. If you experience any issues, contact GitHub support.
https://developer.github.com/v3/orgs/teams/

and it requires team-id instead of name. There is no way to get this ID without api call (though it's simple).

We can write more code to resolve team-id by name (teams can belong to other teams).
But because the API is unstable for the first version I left it as is.

Possible solutions:

• Workaround with addition api calls for id resolving despite the fact api is unstable
• Use GraphQL api
• Use something else to implement ACL instead of github teams
• You can suggest more!

[dpordomingo]

I think we can use the "only-for-development" gh api, that suits our necessities for this internal tool.
To retrieve the team-id we can:

1. GET /orgs/:org/teams, to obtain the two teams in the org,
2. filter the list obtained by (1), to get the team-id of the team we're searching,
3. GET /teams/:team-id/members, and check if the user is in the list of members,

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an alternative of (3), it could be

3. GET /teams/:eam-id/memberships/:username to guess if the user is in the team, and is active

[dpordomingo]

Plus this comments: #60 (review)