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

[Jeff Mitchell <mitchell kde org>]

On 3/11/2011 3:28 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Frederic Muller wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> The people who advocated for this decision when it came up felt that the
> domain name would not make a big difference, and that the important
> thing was to use a well established architecture.

Dave is correct; the decision was made based on established, production
infrastructure, and not out of convenience.

--Jeff