On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 08:20:30AM +0200, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: > This "mantra" thing doesn't seem to be very intuitive and even less > professional.
I think it is intuitive, there are just not enough responsive people on IRC to give the mantra to those who come to request one (most of them come from QGIS, which is a good sign of project health, btw). Professional ? Maybe not, not from a system operations point of view. > Is there any chance that a CAPTCHA or other more common patterns can be > used in that signup page? The mantra thing was supposed to be a temporary measure. Now that we have better antispam measures in place it could be removed, but I find getting to meet new users early on IRC to be very instructive. This time I suggested Christian to use the list in case he wouldn't get a reponse soon. What I'm trying to do is to make project members in charge of distributing the mantra to users coming for their project. Richard knows how, and can share the instructions to others in the team. > It's supposed to be the entry point for many of QGIS related services after > all, even if I start thinking that moving towards other simpler SSO would > be advisable at this point. Whatever SSO you'd use there's always an initial registration to be performed. I think making services more "flexible" to accept different kind of authentications would be nice (first and foremost I'd like to see OpenID implemented), but it is not the SSO being "hard" here, just the OSGeo registration process (intentionally so). I plan to drop the mantra barrier within a month or so. Please remember that before the mantra the user registration was just CLOSED, and nobody came to ask anything because there was no pointer to reach out to the project members or sysadmin. At least now there's a communication channel open. I'll try to avoid sending people to the list, but please help with sharing the mantra (other recently registered users can further spread it). --strk; _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
