Chris Steipp wrote:
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.
I suppose you could rely only on global (in the CentralAuth extension
sense) accounts, but it really would make sense for Wikimedia to get its
own house in order first: we should finish fully unifying login across
Wikimedia wikis before delving into concurrent authentication systems.
I think this mailing list thread suffers from an analysis of what the
potential negative consequences of allowing third-party login are. The
positive to users (one less username and password to remember) is clearer
to see. What are the drawbacks of doing this? I'd like to see the pros and
cons outlined on
mediawiki.org or
meta.wikimedia.org.
Greg Grossmeier wrote:
You can. You can "claim" other accounts in
Phab.
What's Phab?
MZMcBride