Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org> writes: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:00:06AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > What of those that use an OpenID provider not on the whitelist? [… > > What of non-DDs who do not necessarily have an account on any of those > > services […]? > > Fair enough, any OpenID server will probably do, as long as being > authenticated doesn't automatically authorize any privileges. > > If Debian were an OpenID provider, then using the Debian OpenID > could automatically give some authorization, like assuming that one > is a DD. That could have been handy, but indeed not particularly > needed.
To be clear: I am very much in favour of an OpenID presented for each Debian account, just as every DD gets a debian.org email address. They would, as you say, be very handy for use as a Debian-specific identity if the person wants to use it. But I'm equally against *requiring* that anyone must use a specific provider's OpenID for general use on Debian machines, just as we don't require a debian.org email address be used for general Debian project use. -- \ “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that | `\ divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of | _o__) being correct.” —Niels Bohr (to Wolfgang Pauli), 1958 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
