wine users - Mar 2008 - Sync use accounts between appdb, wine-bugs and wine-forums

Currently, I have two accounts : one for wine-bugs and one for appdb. That
doesn't annoy me as it is, but that would be cool f those were merged
together. I don't know if it is possible, since appdb, bugzilla and phpbb
are three different php programs, but that would help new users to participate
on every side of wine.

By the way, I saw that my tr'd message went on a new thread on the forum,
but it was an answer to a previous question. You probably want to merge them
together. (That was about a sound card).

Cheers
J?r?me

       
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Well Bugzilla is actually CGI not PHP... Whatever... The thing is we should have
a unified login for all our sites. We currently have 4 sites that a user can log
into. They are:

Bugs (http://bugs.winehq.org): server at CodeVWeavers using CGI and MySql login
by email
AppDb (http://appdb.winehq.org): server at CodeWeavers using PHP and MySql login
by email.
Wiki (http://wiki.winehq.org): server at Lattica using python login by user
name.
Forum (http://forum.winehq.org): server at CodeWeavers using  PHP and ??? login
by user name

Bugzilla has the ability to use LDAP already. and extending it to the others 
would be the way to go IMO.

We have come a long way in integrating the AppDB and Bugzilla. Integrating the
logins would be a huge advantage for application maintainers as well as
administrators.

This is not really and original thought since it has been around since 2002. see
bug 560 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560)

I think the main problem is doing the work, and then maintaining it forever. The
only internally written project here is the AppDB. Bugzilla and the Forums are
open source projects maintained outside of WineHQ. If we ever want to upgrade to
new versions of PHPbb and Bugzilla, our patches would need to be ported over
each time.

It's not impossible, but it is also not something that can be done
carelessly.

Dan Kegel wrote:
> jnewman <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > I think the main problem is doing the work, and then maintaining it
forever.
> > 
> 
> There is OpenID support out there for PHPbb,
> http://www.phpbbopenid.com/
> We might consider trying that out.
> 
> There isn't current support for Bugzilla yet, but people are talking
about it:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294608
> - Dan

I have a student here that is interested in implementing OpenID for the AppDB as
a SOC project and I would be willing to mentor him if it was accepted. His name
is Matthew Weiss and he is  a second year computing science major here a Kings
University. Do you think that there is a chance  we could get it accepted as a
SOC project?