2009/4/27 MinuteElectron minuteelectron@googlemail.com:
2009/4/27 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
It's too late. You need to make that kind of decision when you first start. Dealing with conflicts when we went over to global accounts within Wikimedia was hard enough, dealing with them if we went over to accepting OpenIDs would be a nightmare.
I think OpenIDs would (should?) be tied to accounts, not used as usernames.
At the moment accounts and usernames are in a very fundamental 1:1 correspondence. It would be quite a major change to do away with that.