Yes. Support as many providers as possible, google at least, I basically don't even want to use any more web services with own login unless I have to. single login FTW
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Chris Steipp <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
