FOSS needs a central bug tracker

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 17:44 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:
>> >> As for using email addresses as OpenIDs, this is something the OpenID
>> >> community is talking about quite a bit right now; Google included.
>> >
>> > Having to type in a domain or an email address is NOT an improvement
>>
>> Having a single account over multiple account is an improvement.
>>
>> > This should require NO typing. The user should see no URLs, no domains,
>>
>> Why not?
>>
>> > no emails, they should see nothing but a button to click.
>>
>> Why not? This is trying to solve the problem of multiple accounts not
>> laziness. Eventually I'm sure there will be browser extensions to auto
>> enter your open id info if you can't bare to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.
>
> Does ease of use mean anything to you? Think about browser devices that
> don't have keyboards.
>
> You're trying to solve a much smaller problem than me. How is entering
> your email everywhere an improvement over just using the same password
> on every site? All you've done is made it so you enter one thing instead
> of two. That's *it*. (Does OpenID even remove the need to go through an
> email validation loop on every single site? Since it completely avoids
> the entire notion of email, I don't think it does...)


Are we still talking about making being a bug filer across multiple
projects easier?


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