On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Monty Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 09/24/2013 07:01 PM, Atwood, Mark wrote: > > | It's actually opposite of how you describe. Writing a good OpenID > consumer > > is hard due to user interface design issues, > > | especially since most people (even most technical people) have no idea > how > > to properly use OpenID. Education efforts > > | have been ongoing for 8 years, so that won't really help either. > > > > Except that in our case, all our apps are *already* OpenID consumers. > There > > is no additional education or development needed here. > > > > Standing up another provider is more work. Making our existing apps be > > provider agnostic is less. > > Not true. You're forgetting user interface. > > Currently, we have passthrough SSO. That means you, at worst, click > "login" then get redirected, then click OK, then get redirected. Done. > > If we went to "any provider" - you'd have to click "login" - then enter > your OpenID - which will confuse almost every single developer we have, > since only a handful of us in the world actually understand OpenID, then > they will all come to #openstack-infra and ask questions. Then they will > get it wrong. Then they will mistype their OpenID. Then they WON'T HAVE > ONE... then they'll get it wrong again... and a giant pile of fail will > ensue. > > Couldn't you have a button/link that takes them to Launchpad? That way if they don't have another OpenID or don't know what's happening they could just click it. -- David blog: http://www.traceback.org twitter: http://twitter.com/dstanek www: http://dstanek.com
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