On 12/31/2014 1:52 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > Hi everyone, > > When logging in to Gerrit today, I received a warning that Google will > shutdown their OpenID 2.0 support on April 20, 2015. This affects anyone > who uses Gerrit with a Google login. > > More info at: > https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenID#shutdown-timetable > > I found the following links where the gerrit community was discussing > the change: > https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2677 > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/Hjn-6BV3KBU > > Sincerely, > Jason
Jason, Everyone that uses Google OpenID has received that message once for every OpenID service that is authenticated to. As stated in the message you received, the reason Google is sending it to end users is that Google doesn't have a contact list for developers of services that implemented Google OpenID and not their replacement authentication mechanism. At the current time there is no version of Gerrit that supports the replacement. There is work underway within the Gerrit community to provide a more extensible authentication framework. In theory that will make it easier to implement other web authentication methods. Until such time as Gerrit has the necessary support there is nothing for the OpenAFS developer community to do. Gerrit was originally developed to support Android and they are in exactly the same boat OpenAFS is in. I can only hope that if the necessary support is not available in Gerrit by the April 20 deadline that the deadline will be extended if only to prevent interruption to the Android development community. Jeffrey Altman
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