FOSS needs a central bug tracker

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM, John5342 <john5342 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 2009/4/21 Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com>:
>>>> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 03:04 +0100, John5342 wrote:
>>>>> What i would be interested in though is some kind of standardised api
>>>>> implemented in all the major bug trackers so other things can be
>>>>> easily implemented on top of them such as semi automated up-streaming
>>>>> of bugs. Making use of something like OpenID would reduce the multiple
>>>>> login issue.
>>>>
>>>> +1 the Open Source world fixing the Single Sign-on problem would go a
>>>> long way towards solving much irritation. I suppose it's a matter of
>>>> getting everyone to support OpenID...
>>>
>>> The good news with getting everyone to support openid is that most
>>> people use some version of one of a limited number of bug tracker
>>> systems such as bugzilla or trac. A quick google shows there is
>>> already some work being done on making bugzilla support openid. If a
>>> few more trackers work on it then we will be well on our way towards
>>> convincing individual projects to use it.
>>
>> OpenID is indeed a solution to one of the problems (multiple bug
>> reporting accounts). But that would only work if:
>> 1. All bug trackers support OpenID
>> 2. all currently using a bug tracker update to a version that uses OpenID.
>
>
> Why exactly can one use the same email address and password for all
> their issue tracker accounts?


Correction: Why exactly _can't_ one use the same email address and
password for all their issue tracker accounts?


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