On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:47:05PM +0000, Ankur Sinha wrote:
Thank you. I had a look at the user stories and wondered: is it merely
meant to be a modernisation/rewrite of FAS with the same features
(and I assume: back-end improvements), or are new user facing (and
other) features also intended to be added?
It is indeed a re-write, but a lot of the functionality is being moved
into the existing freeipa project. Initially, I think we want to just
implement those things we need, but of course new features would be good
to add as time/development permits.
As trivial examples off the top of my head (as a user): I was hoping
we'd be able to mention multiple IRC nicknames in the new system so
zodbot (and other services) could pick them up. Similarly, given that
we're using new social media platforms in the community now, I was
hoping we could make it possible for user accounts to include this
information (Telegram/Twitter/multiple e-mail accounts). Usability on
mobile platforms is another issue with the current FAS, but I expect
anything developed nowadays will be mobile compatible.
Yeah, those are both things worth suggesting, sure. ;)
I'm sure other community members have their own enhancements in
mind.
Sure.
Have these and other limitations of the current FAS been
discussed/listed somewhere so the new system doesn't end up having them
too? (Sorry if the user stories were discussed with the community (the
users in this case) already---I've been failing miserably to keep up
with everything that goes on in Fedora in recent times :(.)
Yes, some of those things definitely have been discussed, but do feel
free to note them to the team / make sure they are taken under
consideration.
kevin