Dreaming about cooperation with upstream [Was: Re: Upstream error reporting]

[Andrew Farris]

Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 10:32 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
>> The advantage of my scenario is that our reporters don't need to 
>> make yet another useless account in some bugzilla 
>> (http://uselessaccount.com/). I had a lot of complaints from our 
>> reporters about that -- "I have reported this already, why you 
>> guys are so much talking about cooperation, and you are not able 
>> to resolve it among yourself." I know there are some reasons, but 
>> considering that bug reporters are our most valuable asset (which 
>> I believe firmly) we should try most to treat them well. 
> 
> That's why I mentioned OpenID (http://www.openid.net). Not that I've
> investigated this much, but it sounds as if this could hack the problem
> of "one account needed for every bloody website".

OpenID seems like a valuable thing to get adopted into the bugzilla system (upstream so it 
eventually gets to lots of bz's).  I've been exploring it from the website user side and 
it sure does make things nicer to work with multiple login sites at once.

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