Amazing work! Best Piyush Aggarwal
On Sat, 3 Oct, 2020, 3:26 pm Carl Schwan, <c...@carlschwan.eu> wrote: > Hello folks, > I'm happy to announce the successful deployment of the new identity system > in KDE, codename MyKDE. The new identity system is now available in > https://my.kde.org. You should be able to login into the my.kde.org > website > with your normal KDE credential. > > For the moment, only the wikis are using MyKDE but in the comming months > this should change with more and more services switching to MyKDE. I will > let you all know of the progress of the migration. > > > FAQ: > ==== > > Why the move? > ------------- > > identity.kde.org is using OpenLDAP for user management with a small PHP > frontend allowing the account creation. And we had the following problems > with it: > > * Account removal is hard, requiring significant manual intervention and > effort (several hours work in some instances) > * Account registration takes 30 seconds or more to complete, creating a > poor > user experience > * Groups don't scale effectively > * Anti-spam measures are too crude > > More on that in https://phabricator.kde.org/T8449 > > Will my data be migrated? > ------------------------- > > Yes, your data are migrated just by login into MyKDE once. This will > migrate > all your group membership (KDE developer, Akademy Team, ...), personal > data and password. > > For users who didn't log into MyKDE during the migration period. If you are > a KDE developer or KDE e.V. member, your account will be imported as a > disabled account and you will need to ask sysadmins to enabled it. For the > rest of the users of identity.kde.org who don't have a membership to > groups, > your account will be removed. We think this is the best solution because > there > is no need to store personal information that we don't need from users who > don't use the system anymore. If you want to conserve your account (and > username), please log at least once. We will send periodic emails reminding > you of migrating your account. > > How do I register a new account in MyKDE? > ----------------------------------------- > > For the moment the possibility of registering a new account is disabled in > MyKDE and the only possibility is to create an identity.kde.org account > and > then migrate your account. This is due to the fact we don't want some > accounts existing only in MyKDE. This will naturally change when we migrate > fully to MyKDE. > > How to I collect a badge? > ------------------------- > > MyKDE has the possibility to grant badges to users. For the moment there is > only one badge enabled: KDE developer. This badge is given to every KDE > developer and is displayed on their public profile (if enabled). When the > new Season of KDE website will be deployed, it will be also possible to > have > an SoK mentor and SoK mentee badge. > > I'm interested in ideas of new badges (and badge designs), so please let me > know if you have a genius idea that doesn't gamify KDE contribution (e.g > no made > 100/1000/10 000 commits badge). > > Note that you are in control of that badge get displayed. > > What is the public profile functionality? > ----------------------------------------- > > One of the new features of MyKDE is the possibility to have a public > profile. > This public profile is opt-in, so you need to explicitly enable it to make > it work and it can display a small bio, your avatar, name, username, social > network account, Liberapay account, and badges earned. > > This is for example how it looks for me: > https://my.kde.org/user/carlschwan/ > > Can I contribute to MyKDE? > -------------------------- > > Yes, the source code is hosted in > https://invent.kde.org/websites/my-kde-org > and all the deployment information can be found here: > https://sysadmin-docs.kde.org/services/mykde.html > > Cheers, > Carl Schwan > https://carlschwan.eu > > >