Hey all, as requested i'd like to wrap up what identity.kde.org is all about, as i am sure a lot of people do not understand it yet fully.
identity.kde.org is our central account management. It is based on LDAP and acts as a Single Sign On Service. With a registration there you are enabled to create accounts on several of our websites. This includes the forums and the wikis. But not only that, it also enables you to apply for a developer account. The information you need to provide at this point in time is a valid email address (as you need to confirm your request) and a real name. Based on that realname you are provided with some options for a loginname you can choose. One might argue "why realname", and it was discussed elsewhere already and probably will change to only email address. Just keep in mind for now that it enables a lot of our management services, especially for our developer community. But it is important to know that it is *only* for management purposes. Once you jump over to e.g. the wikis and try to login with your identity credentials you are offered the choice of another username. And this time your choice is considered your displayname. So the loginname from identity indeed only acts as a loginname, nothing publicly visible. And again, might change in the near future. As for spam issues, this might only slightly decrease, because spam systems quickly adapt to new login ways. But it helps a bit at least. Additionally, technically we have support for identity logins on the wikis, but sadly we still need to supply openid and plain login support, due to historical reasons. identity is new, wikis are old... Unless we find a way to merge all sorts of accounts this will not change. Unlike the forums, where new accounts are now entirely based on identity subscriptions. But from a user perspective you benefit from one single set of login credentials you need to remember and use in several places. And more of them to come once we finish their integration. So much about identity. Consider this just an informal post. Cheerio, -- Ingo Malchow (neverendingo) New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org or ask questions on http://forum.kde.org
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