On 1/23/07, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
Actually I will not lay off on Single User Login. The reason is quite
simple. Some things that are important to me will not happen until AFTER
Single User Login. It is all well and good that everyone comes up with
the most nifty things and all kinds of functionality that HAS to be
implemented because you are volunteers too. In the mean time some rather
basic stuff does not get done. If this drives you mad, fine. Fix the
issue - help Brion implement SUL !
The promised date for SUL was end of January 2005. It is now a year late.
Thanks,
GerardM
I couldn't agree with this more. Single User Login is a pretty
useless feature. It was a neat dream back in 2001 or whenever
passport.com came out, but it really is rather useless. But...there
are so many other useful features that are being ignored because they
aren't scheduled to be implemented until *after* SUL.
I really wish the board would fix the issue and tell Brion to just
drop the whole idea of Single User Login. You know, Firefox (like
probably all the other browsers) has this nifty feature that stores
your username and password for each site, so you only have to type in
your password once.
By the way, January 2005 was *two* years ago, not one.
Anthony
Hoi,
I have my dates wrong then; January 2006 it is.
I do disagree that SUL is a useless feature .. I operate with over 100
user profiles within the Wikimedia Foundation and I hate it. It leads to
practices that from a security pov are horrible. I am quite happy that
things wait until after SUL but I am not happy that it takes so long. I
also thing it bad that there is this feature creep that prevents
relevant things from getting done.
I do agree that it would be good when the board helps with some
prioritisations. I am afraid that many things will get on the backburner
as a result and THIS is something that people will not like. Yet again a
situation where people do not realise what they ask for ?
Thanks,
GerardM