On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
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/
I think since this is already built and would require no extra work, we should definitely support GitHub and Persona as well.
There are basically two types of users for our issue trackers and code review tools:
1). Users who are already Wikimedia community members or staff. These users will have Wikimedia and/or Labs accounts to authenticate with. This includes basically all Wikipedians etc. as well. Wikimedia OAuth support will make most of these people happy.
2.) Users who are technical or design-oriented who may be willing to help, but who come from outside Wikimedia. Basically anyone who does FOSS development these days has a GitHub account, which is a big part of why we mirror to GitHub already. If we are serious about wanting to be friendly towards additional open source contributors, all of these users will be familiar with either GitHub or Persona. (Mozilla Persona is less well-known, but is extremely user friendly and will be beloved by the hard core FOSS person who doesn't like GitHub's centralized model).
Other providers (like Google, Facebook, etc.) are not really going to get us a lot of extra traction among either Wikimedians or new technical contributors. Plus, having too many choices is a bad user experience.[1]
Steven
1. http://uxmyths.com/post/712569752/myth-more-choices-and-features-result-in-h...