On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:01:50AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 08:41 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote: > > I saw OpenID ( http://openid.net/ ) presented and demonstrated at > > EuroOSCON last week--it looked really cool. My reason for writing this > > morning is because on another list (grass-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx) developers > > are bemoaning the problem of (1) spam in their bugtracker, and (2) their > > desire to keep the bugtracker open and not require that users sign up > > for an account before using the system. > > > > I understand there is a similar question being discussed about just how > > open to make the Fedora Wiki (not the CVS repository, but the Wiki). > > > > I, too, hate the fact that I have to manage so many identities on the > > web, and I, too, wish there were a decent single sign-on for me to use > > with my favorite websites. I'd like to suggest OpenID as a possible > > candidate for solving that problem and see whether enough people on this > > list agree to push it into the Fedora infrastructure. > > - moinmoin has been 'openid enabled' - but only in 1.5.X - not the > version we're using right now - 1.3.X. We should be able to move to it - > but it will be an involved process, I'm sure. Not the least of which is > getting all the people to now create openid accounts. And this says > nothing of the need for the CLA that we require. > > - mailman - it has been openid enabled but not in the upstream release. > Patches are available. > > - bugzilla appears to be completely out in the cold which means there > would be a need for someone to do the programming and, theoretically, > submitting the patches upstream. Patches for Plone are set to be released by the end of October at their development conference. > So we'd have to refit a good portion of our infrastructure (some of > which also serves @redhat.com not just fedora) and we'd have to get our > users to migrate to the new login mechanism. I'm not saying it's > impossible but I think we're looking at a development time and migration > path that IF we have people willing to undertake it will take greater > than a year. No doubt. _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
