collaboration tools integrated with federated id - Re: The new Launchpad team is ready

[Neal McBurnett]

I think we've all found this conversation to be well-intentioned but very frustrating.

I think I just hit on why, and it isn't news, but often gets lost in the drama.

We all want easy group collaboration, but it is evident from the conversation that we don't yet have a platform that enables that as much as we'd like.

Launchpad has support for some standards relating to single-sign-on and group management, and a variety of collaboration tools, but people don't like or haven't broadly adopted the email list and other communication features it has.

And there are other collaboration tools out there (irc, wiki, forums, askubuntu, etc) but they are not at well integrated with launchpad single-sign-on and group management.

Are there any ongoing efforts likely to resolve this using modern standards?

What are the relevant bugs?

I note that universities have a similar set of issues, and at Internet2 and elsewhere, progress on support for federated id / saml / shibboleth / etc. continues.  Can we benefit from and/or contribute to those efforts?

Is there any low-hanging fruit?  Integrating mailman with openid/oauth?

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 04:06:59PM +0100, Paul White wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, at 15:50, José Antonio Rey wrote:
> 
> 
>     People use Launchpad because it's something needed.
> 
>     Still don't think it's a good idea.
> 
> Agreed.
>  
> Launchpad is very good at controlling access; some of my access to Canonical systems depends on membership to a specific group
> which is checked during the SSO process.
>  
> The vast majority of open groups are just there to reflect a user's activities and have no real use or relevance. I think "Badge
> collecting" is a phrase I 've heard more than once. Surely many would join just for that reason.
>  
> I think mailing lists should stay at https://lists.ubuntu.com/ - it's where I can manage all of my Ubuntu mailing lists after all.
> -- 
> Paul White
> PaulW2U at ubuntu.com