On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 02:05:33PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >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.
That's my hope, yes. >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. Yup... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
