Hi, Many thanks to Steve and the www/wiki/video teams for the BoF and this summary. On 10/09/2014 19:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: > debian-wiki > =========== > [snip] > Questions about account setup, clarified that account holders in the > wiki don't need to be DDs. Sign-ups are free for anyone who cares - > please join in! > [snip] > Special sprint / BSP for web/wiki? > ================================== > [snip] > A good example of this is the up-coming semi-planned switch to > single-sign-on for the wiki. We'd like to get away from the separate > accounts that everybody has. SSO is something we've been wanting to do > for ages, but short of manpower. We'll be working on migration when we > find some time. > [snip] Since the question of authentication is on the table (and sorry if it has already been asked, I didn't find any thread related to that on d-www), I was wondering why the different wikis (wiki, debconf, maybe others) each have their own accounts for non-dd contributors. The problem for DD (and for alioth members IIUC) appears to be solved by SSO. But for contributors, I see no plan of centralizing accounts. I was wondering if using (for example) alioth as a central account manager for *all* (non-dd?) contributors was not done: a) because someone has to do it (and it depends on SSO being enabled), b) for technical/political reasons, c) because signing in alioth is a couple more clicks harder than signing in a wiki, d) because migrating all the existing accounts would be (more or less) impossible, e) some other reason I haven't thought of. To me, c) & d) aren't really relevant, and I'm not competent about b) and e)... -- fabien (captnfab on IRC) PS: I'm new to the list (but I'm on the list, so no need to CC me), and I am not a DD.
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