Gergo Tisza wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Another alternative is to explicitly support multiple usernames under an umbrella backend account... (Anybody remember AOL screen names? BLAST FROM THE PAST)
Or just add a "this is my primary account" flag, which, when set, clears the same flag from all other accounts with the same email. If we require email confirmation for setting it, that would even take care of concerns about email addresses changing hands over time.
Yep, this is certainly a possibility. It would be great if you and others would edit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RFC/Login_via_e-mail_address or at least drop a note on the talk page so that we can consider and address the issues here to come up with clean, secure, and sane solutions.
devunt wrote:
Build something that works for some subset of the use cases first, then we can worry about edge cases and scaling.
Before starting code, is this project have no chance to selection for GSoC 2015? I want to attend the GSoC 2015 with this project if available.
If this project means basic support for login via e-mail address in MediaWiki, I think there's consensus to implement this feature and it would likely make for a good Google Summer of Code project. However, if the project scope increases to include more than just basic support for login via e-mail address, it's probably not a great candidate for GSoC.
MZMcBride