On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 14:20 -0700, Quim Gil wrote: > This is a casual request for comments about the use of 3rd party > authentication providers for our future Wikimedia Phabricator instance. > > Wikimedia Phabricator is expected to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and many > other tools, each of them having their own registration and user account. > The plan is to offer Wikimedia SUL (your Wikimedia credentials) as the > default way to login to Phabricator -- details at http://fab.wmflabs.org/T40 > > However, Phabricator can support authentication using 3rd party providers > like GitHub, Google, etc. You can get an idea at > https://secure.phabricator.com/auth/start/ > > There are good reasons to plan for Wikimedia SUL only (consistency with the > rest of Wikimedia projects), and there are good reasons to plan for other > providers as well (the easiest path for most first-time contributors). > > What do you think? Should we offer alternatives to Wikimedia login? If so, > which ones? > >
Seeing the mess with user accounts we have on the Wikis these days, please make sure we wont run into naming conflicts. A wiki user with the global account "foo" should always be able to use that account Phabricator, no matter what users from other sources did before. Cheers, Marius _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
