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Hey Jeremy,

The askbot have an alternate solution for login mapping, the only drawback
that you cannot do it automatically. So if you login with your launchpad
account, and you login with your openstackid account meanwhile the
launchpad session is active, the user account will be tied for both login
providers. So this is the technical part.

I think we can enforce moving users with a proper communication:
- define a migration period (1 year for example)
- send this update around on mailing lists, social channels, superuser
magazine, user groups, summits, events, etc.
- add a notification about this upgrade period to login UI of every site.

If someone won't login within the 1year period it means, he is not an
active user, so we cannot lost any important users. So after 1yr, we can
disable the launchpad login, and support a manual migration way. Usually it
is very easy to tie together the user accounts based on email address,
because most of the sites are getting this information from the provider.
It is possible to automate account merge based on emails, but it requires
much more development from our side. (I think even gerrit have the email
address somewhere internally)

Brgds,
  Marton

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:12 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

> On 2016-02-11 22:38:34 +0800 (+0800), Tom Fifield wrote:
> > I believe a while back we talked about moving wiki.o.o to use the
> > OpenStackID.
> >
> > Knowing MediaWiki it's probably pretty hard, but is it something
> > that's on the radar these days?
>
> As with migrating any of the existing systems from
> login.launchpad.net to openstackid.org, the biggest complication is
> coming up with a means of mapping accounts on one to accounts on the
> other. This is especially challenging as the two do not necessarily
> share any common key and may in the cases of many accounts share no
> common data at all. What we need to decide is whether we make some
> best-effort attempt to map up what accounts we can, or just punt and
> expect everyone to end up with new accounts. I'm open to either
> option but others may have stronger opinions on continuity there.
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
>
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