It is rather simple, I agree. Jane, Otto, etc. I was asking why we force people to register on wp.orginstead of on the codex. Is wp.org more restrictive?
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Lorelle on WordPress > <[email protected]> wrote: > > To expand a little more beyond what Chip said, each "section" of > WordPress > > uses different publishing platforms. Few have access to the "WordPress" > part > > of WordPress.org or WordPress.com (they both have similar setups) as the > > bloggy part is small comparatively. > > The Forums are on bbPress. The Codex is on MediaWiki. There are even > efforts > > to incorporate some BuddyPress features into the whole mess, though I'm > not > > sure of the status of those yet, and how much is BuddyPress and how much > is > > custom. > > Each of these has their own logins. Integrating the forums into > > WordPress.org was easy as it was mostly bbPress. After a couple years, > they > > incorporated the "look and feel" of the Codex into the main site, but > logins > > were never completely merged in. Now, that's the effort. How to combine > two > > extensive and HUGE databases into one. Kudos to all involved in the > effort. > > It's a monstrous one and I hope they blog it cuz I'm fascinated to see > how > > it all comes together and the challenges that had to be overcome in the > > process. > > Hopefully soon, we'll all be one happy login family. :D > > Lorelle > > I have the new codex logins working, actually. It is a rather simple > MediaWiki plugin. The upgrade to the support forums did set me back a > bit as I had to rework the code to handle the new password hashing > mechanisms. > > I'll install it as soon as I get the unified cookie system working, so > that logging into one place will log you into all of them. :) > > -Otto > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >
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