Hello everyone, to avoid user account fragmentation, we implemented an Single Sign On (SSO) scheme (almost) from the start that 'works' across all the important qt-project.org sites we have so far:
- codereview.qt-project.org (Gerrit) - wiki.qt-project.org (MediaWiki) - bugreports.qt.nokia.com (Jira, which is going to move to qt-project.org eventually) The SSO scheme is based on Atlassian Crowd, a SSO solution that offers connectors for a lot of web applications. Unfortunately, there are no working connectors for either MediaWiki nor Gerrit. Obviously, Jira works just fine. However, Codereview requires a login, and while the login is optional for the wiki (https only, http allows read-only access), it's confusing. The details are outlined in https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTWEBSITE-326. The reason is that we needed to fall back to the Crowd module for Apache, which means no way to log out and copy&pasting of links that work for everyone becomes difficult. An obvious solution is to write Crowd authenticators for the two applications, so it doesn't need to happen on the web server level. For MediaWiki, somebody already wrote a plugin, which unfortunately is broken (for references, see the bug report above). While the Qt project has a lot of fine C++ developers, there are few people with the skills it takes to develop such connectors (PHP and Java respectively). To make sure this issue doesn't sit in the bug tracker forever, I hereby call for people interested in helping out. We can provide a development and testing environment and help out with (almost) any question you might have. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Molkentin, Software Engineer, Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks website: http://qt.nokia.com Rudower Chaussee 13, DE-12489 Berlin Nokia gate5 GmbH Firmensitz: Invalidenstr. 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin: HRB 106443 B Umsatzsteueridentifikationsnummer: DE 812 845 193 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Halbherr, Karim Tähtivuori _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
