On May 15, 2014 3:56 PM, "hoo" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Accounts are kinda namespaced, so github user foo and sul user foo can both have phabricator accounts. Since we're using OAuth though, that requires a global wiki account so local only accounts would not be able to join. So we probably need password or LDAP auth at minimum. > > Cheers, > > Marius > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
