On May 15, 2014 3:56 PM, "hoo" hoo@online.de wrote:
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 14:20 -0700, Quim Gil wrote:
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
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?
Seeing the mess with user accounts we have on the Wikis these days, please make sure we wont run into naming conflicts. A wiki user with the global account "foo" should always be able to use that account Phabricator, no matter what users from other sources did before.
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.
Cheers,
Marius
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