OpenID yadda yadda yadda...

[Ben Finney]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> To everything there is a season, and the season for this was almost a
> year ago:
> 
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/210943
> ~launchpad should be an openid consumer~

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 07:05:33PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I hope this is useful to whoever needs to know about it. I would
> > submit a bug report, but unlike this mailing list it requires me
> > to manage a separate authentication identity.
> I agree this one of the major problems of Launchpad, and it would be
> much appreciated if they allowed e.g. OpenID authentication or
> something like that.

Or even if one could participate entirely via email without setting up
any explicit site-specific account, just as one can with e.g. the
Debian bug tracker.

> It's not *that* big a thing though imo, there are lots of other
> sites that also require authentication using passwords, including
> for example alioth.

If someone is overloaded already with site-specific authentication
cookies, that's no reason to take on more of them. Quite the opposite,
I would think. I hit my limit some time ago.

> Also, if you're subscribed to the mailing list, you did have to
> specify a password for it in mailman, creating an account for your
> email address on lists.canonical.com.

I participate via an interface that does not require any site-specific
account, precisely to avoid that barrier.

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Ben Finney