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?
Will Labs no longer have the same authentication as the rest of the
tooling? Is this something that will be solved before the switch?
- Ryan