On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:53:24 -0700, Mark A. Hershberger mah@wikimedia.org wrote:
[[User:JohnnyMrNinja]] contacted me today to ask for developer input on his proposal to complete account unification. I copied his comments from the discussion on meta to a bug (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35707) and said I would post the request here.
I don't know enough about SUL to know what would be involved in carrying out his proposal. It sounds reasonable to me and it appears to have a lot of support on Meta, but that is the extent of my insight.
Please comment here on-list if you have any thoughts -- I'll point to this thread in Bugzilla.
Thanks!
Mark.
Complete unification was the whole goal of CentralAuth. The fact that we still have un-unified users is a failure to meet that goal; and the fact that we still have un-unified users without conflicts who can have their name taken on another project is a failure to take key steps towards that goal. The only 'oppose' or even 'neutal' comments I see are people who have absolutely no clue how CA works, what the goal of CA was, and are making completely invalid speculation.
I see no reason for this not do be done as soon as someone with the capability to do this has time to do it. IMHO at minimum every single existing username should have been locked out from creation a long time ago.