On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:53:24 -0700, Mark A. Hershberger
<[email protected]> wrote:
[[User:JohnnyMrNinja]] contacted me today to ask for developer input on
his proposal to complete account unification. I copied his comments
from the discussion on meta to a bug
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35707) and said I would post the request
here.
I don't know enough about SUL to know what would be involved in carrying
out his proposal. It sounds reasonable to me and it appears to have a
lot of support on Meta, but that is the extent of my insight.
Please comment here on-list if you have any thoughts -- I'll point to
this thread in Bugzilla.
Thanks!
Mark.
Complete unification was the whole goal of CentralAuth. The fact that we
still have un-unified users is a failure to meet that goal; and the fact
that we still have un-unified users without conflicts who can have their
name taken on another project is a failure to take key steps towards that
goal.
The only 'oppose' or even 'neutal' comments I see are people who have
absolutely no clue how CA works, what the goal of CA was, and are making
completely invalid speculation.
I see no reason for this not do be done as soon as someone with the
capability to do this has time to do it. IMHO at minimum every single
existing username should have been locked out from creation a long time
ago.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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