On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Fabien Givors (Debian) wrote: > Since the question of authentication is on the table (and sorry if it > has already been asked, I didn't find any thread related to that on > d-www), I was wondering why the different wikis (wiki, debconf, maybe > others) each have their own accounts for non-dd contributors.
The reasons are mainly historical. > The problem for DD (and for alioth members IIUC) appears to be solved by > SSO. But for contributors, I see no plan of centralizing accounts. The ultimate situation is to merge all of the user databases (including wiki.d.o, alioth.d.o, wiki.dc.o, db.dc.o etc) into db.debian.org. > I was wondering if using (for example) alioth as a central account > manager for *all* (non-dd?) contributors was not done: > > a) because someone has to do it (and it depends on SSO being enabled), Probably the biggest one. > b) for technical/political reasons, There were some of these in the past, many are gone now. > c) because signing in alioth is a couple more clicks harder than signing > in a wiki, I think the procedures are approximately equivalent. > d) because migrating all the existing accounts would be (more or less) > impossible, It should be doable to some extent at least. > e) some other reason I haven't thought of. All our existing user databases were created because we had no SSO solution and it was easier to just go with what was available at the time. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6GE64zx2QjoLEsFyby3vPsijLGQfc+hJBJH=6czkth...@mail.gmail.com
