Open Stack

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 09/24/2013 07:01 PM, Atwood, Mark wrote:
> > | It's actually opposite of how you describe. Writing a good OpenID
> consumer
> > is hard due to user interface design issues,
> > | especially since most people (even most technical people) have no idea
> how
> > to properly use OpenID. Education efforts
> > | have been ongoing for 8 years, so that won't really help either.
> >
> > Except that in our case, all our apps are *already* OpenID consumers.
>  There
> > is no additional education or development needed here.
> >
> > Standing up another provider is more work.  Making our existing apps be
> > provider agnostic is less.
>
> Not true. You're forgetting user interface.
>
> Currently, we have passthrough SSO. That means you, at worst, click
> "login" then get redirected, then click OK, then get redirected. Done.
>
> If we went to "any provider" - you'd have to click "login" - then enter
> your OpenID - which will confuse almost every single developer we have,
> since only a handful of us in the world actually understand OpenID, then
> they will all come to #openstack-infra and ask questions. Then they will
> get it wrong. Then they will mistype their OpenID. Then they WON'T HAVE
> ONE... then they'll get it wrong again... and a giant pile of fail will
> ensue.
>
>
Couldn't you have a button/link that takes them to Launchpad?  That way if
they don't have another OpenID or don't know what's happening they could
just click it.


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