On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:40:25AM -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > On 01/24/2012 09:13 AM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote: > > Given gerrit already works with openid I was wondering if the wiki > > could support the same. It seems there is an extension[1], and it > > also seems it's packaged for fedora[2]. Has anyone looked into this > > and would it be a desirable addition? > > > > [1]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID [2]: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5922 > > My major concern with the wiki is keeping us from having spammers ever > get accounts on there. We have enough trouble gardening our own work, > we'd get buried if we had to manage spam pages. > > I would reckon that OpenID would give a way for spammers to come in, > unless we limited the OpenID servers we worked with, which would > sort-of be against the reason for having OpenID in the first place. > > But I'm very open to other thinking, just unsure how it would be > implemented. I have no experience with mediawiki + openid myself, but maybe giving it a go and monitor it would be good enough for now.
Possible downsides: - Spammers use openid to spam Possible upsides: - More open to new people - People can use a single account for both gerrit and the wiki Since the wiki edits are also shown on IRC I think spam would be caught fast enough and in the worst case the change could be reverted. _______________________________________________ Infra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra
