Ask Fedora enhancements and fixes

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:11:30 -0500
Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> With the recent update to Askbot,  there has been a number of offlist 
> discussions related to Ask Fedora and I wanted to summarize what I
> think needs to be done and some points to discuss

Sounds good. ;) 

> *  Multi-language support:
> 
> This is a very commonly requested feature.  Need to set
> 
> ASKBOT_MULTILINGUAL=True
> 
> Requires Django 1.4 or higher.  I assume the Django modules that
> Askbot depends on needs to require Django 1.4 as well.

Can you send me your scratch build link again? And I can try it out in
stg? I looked and somehow got the wrong link and couldn't find your
scratch build... ;( 

> * Enable sub groups aka meta.ask.fedoraproject.org
> 
> We need to test this in the staging instance first

Does that also need django 1.4?

> * Local user support
> 
> A few users don't want to use openid.  Should we enable local user?
> What are the security implications of that?

I really don't want to do that. It means another place that keeps user
private data, another place we have to manage for password resets, etc. 

> * Integrate FAS support:
> 
> Currently its not obvious that one can use their FAS account to login 
> and we need to make this a prominent option

Yes, we should make the fedora openid easy to see and use. We shouldn't
directly tie to fas. 

Patrick has this mostly working in staging: 
https://ask.stg.fedoraproject.org/account/signin/?next=/

See the 'fedora' button on top right. 

> * Fedora theme:
> 
> I don't know the status of this.

Ryan has been hacking on it. Look in stg. ;) 

kevin
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