Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 03/10/2011 11:03 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> At the time, there were two choices: require everyone to create a Drupal
> account just to register for the conference, or use the authentication
> system which KDE already had in place.
>
> After some discussion, for the sake of expediency (this is an existing,
> well tested authentification system, and many of the conference
> attendees have accounts on it already) the KDE identity LDAP server was
> used for authentification.
>
> Some concerns were raised, and one potential solution suggested by one
> of the KDE admins (Jeff Mitchell) was to use OpenID or something
> similar, to allow people to authenticate with whatever service they
> already had an account for.

It seems that there are 2 options and the identify.kde.org choice was 
taken out of convenience for one party. Why not chose the neutral option 
being fair for both sides instead and avoiding the issue of GNOME asking 
it's user to register at identify.kde.org instead?

That's seems to be a much more logical choice, no?

Thank you.

Fred