On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org wrote:
On 02/22/2013 07:31 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
Let's consider bugzilla.wikimedia.org, for instance. It has its own credentials store. With OpenID as a provider on the projects, it could be possible to use your Wikimedia credentials rather than a username/password specific to bugzilla.
This, alone, makes the case for me. There is support for OpenID: https://github.com/jalcine/bugzilla-openid.
Now, if we could make it possible to edit comments in Bugzilla...
I've been thinking about this issue quite a bit since there's a possibility we could use OpenID for Gerrit.
With Gerrit, there's a very manual conversion cost when switching authn/ authz mechanisms...at least if people want to keep their existing account (with its settings, contribs, etc).
I'm curious if other tools like BZ have similar switching costs.
-Chad