Open Stack

On 25 September 2013 10:18, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org> wrote:
> On Tue 24 Sep 2013 03:04:32 PM PDT, Robert Collins wrote:
>> Indeed! Please please please *do not* stand up yet another
>> password-hosting site. Utter waste of everyone's time.
>
> I agree with you: we don't nee more complexity. Having our own OpenID
> provider is needed in order to *reduce* complexity. Remember that the
> Foundation already has to have *one* system to manage the identity of
> Foundations' individual members. All ATCs also need to be members of the
> Foundation, so at the moment all new contributors need to create two
> accounts: one on Launchpad and one on http://openstack.org/profile. That
> sucks.

Can we change openstack.org/profile and make that another OpenID
consumer? I don't see why the Foundation needs to manage a password.

That would be a smaller change and reduce the number of passwords folk
need to manage. And/or look at Persona?

-Rob


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