Version: (using KDE 4.3.2) Installed from: I Don't Know Hi, I came into this forum few hours ago and I tried to log in KDE Bugs. It shows a big red frame telling me password and login were wrong. Can you create one big database for all the KDE Webservice (bugs, forum etc.) ? Because when we tried to report a bug, the inscription may discourage few people to continue. Maybe we can extend and propose to create a KDE account for new user in the first boot (as a .mac account), not for e-mail but with an applet directly in KDE (why not in KDE Wallet) which log us directly into bugs.kde.org when we need to go into. It would be a profit of time for developers too. Except, we may look like a giant big brother, and the unification would take very long time, it would be very great finally. florentg This feature request was originally submitted through KDE Brainstorm, and has been submitted to Bugzilla due to popular demand. Original idea: http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=39014
<neverendingo> some things need to be worked out, e.g. unified account (do we want to use openid) etc <argonel> seaLne: thanks <tazz> actually i would not call it just forum related. Since what i was thinking was, lets have kind of a kde identity account, using which you could login to any kde website, let it be bko or kde forum or tech base for that matter. <tazz> maybe even commit back to the repo using the same account ? <seaLne> dosen't *base use openid? <sayakb> seaLne: they arent a provider anymore <sayakb> tazz: about the bug, as neverendingo, i believe the use of openid on all websites is yet to be decided. so this 'wish' would be met then and there once something comes up. <neverendingo> seaLne: they change it from time to time, as it is not as reliable as it should <neverendingo> seaLne: that's why it is a bit questionable <sayakb> we didnt use openID as we didnt fine an extension aka MOD that uses a trusted backend lib <sayakb> we as in the forums
And to give some more insight, the xbases already have possible openid logins. These had some problem in the past, as i heard. But mixing all these sites together in the db is a not-so-good idea, performance wise. Not speaking of db fail, if that happens each and every site is involved. And the size is already huge on some of them.
It would already help a lot, if KDE sites would generally allow to login via OpenID. So users wouldn't have to create new accounts all the time. I don't think we need to have our own OpenID provider for that. Actually it's a nice feature that you can just some existing account like you Google account. I don't know what the state of OpenID support in Bugzilla is, though. Something like a central KDE user database which links users from different sites together and allows to identify users across sites might be nice, but is not necessary as OpenID provides part of that. This should be loosely coupled and be a web service, not some direct database sharing.
One part of the problem with OpenID is that it is ripe for spamming of sites, as anyone can create a provider ( and there is software that can be freely downloaded to create one ) It would be convenient for a KDE OpenID provider to exist ( even if limited to authenticating for *.kde.org sites ) as we know that can be trusted. Also, OpenID support has had problems in the past ( see xBases ) so I don't think we can rely on it for single unified sign on to KDE websites.
KDE Identity fixes this problem. Recommending to close issue.
I concur.