launchpad OpenID was Re: [OpenAFS-devel] release-team meeting minutes 2015-04-08

[Dave Botsch]

Other suggestions other than launchpad (which is something I don't have
an account on)?

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 06:47:54PM +0000, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 14:43 -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> > On 4/9/2015 12:10 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> > > On Apr 8, 2015, at 18:49 , Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> > >> Google will stop providing OpenIDs as accepted by gerrit.openafs.org on April 20. Mike reports that Mark Vitale successfully used launchpad.net as a provider, and Marc successfully tested this  during the meeting.
> > > 
> > > This worked for me too. Just sign in to gerrit while you still can, and then under "Settings" -> "Identities" use "Link Another Identity" and enter https://launchpad.net/~your-nickname . Do *not* use this URL for signing up before, or gerrit will create a new account and the launchpad ID can no longer be added to your existing one.
> > > 
> > > And as Chaskiel commented: "Note that since gerrit does not have any sort of user accessible account recovery mechanism, and does not keep sessions around very long, people will need to add the alternate identity provider before April 20."
> 
> > For some reason unknown at this time when I attempt to link
> > 
> >   https://launchpad.net/~jaltman
> > 
> > to the "jaltman" identity in OpenAFS Gerrit I receive
> > 
> >   Provider is not supported, or was incorrectly entered.
> > 
> > I can use this OpenID to authenticate to other services.
> 
> For what it's worth, I just linked mine this morning with no problems.
> 
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