So thats a reason to move to Persona, which federates without needing that complexity.
That said, a 'Login with Launchpad' + 'Login with OpenID' button pair shouldn't be too confusing in the short term. (Not that I see any point while we still require LP ids for bug management). -Rob On 25 September 2013 11:05, 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. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-Infra mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra -- Robert Collins <[email protected]> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
