[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo guidelines for code hosting ?

Sandro Santilli strk at keybit.net
Mon Oct 19 06:13:58 PDT 2015


On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 02:58:26PM +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> On 18 October 2015 at 11:53, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> >
> > Many of them would prefer OSGEO hosting (and preferably git over svn)
> > because why force someone to get a github account just to put in a bug
> > report or submit a patch.
> 
> Such barrier for ad-hoc contributors, not only on GitHub but our Trac too,
> could potentially be removed by allowing a hybrid authentication
> (i.e. sign in to Trac w/ your existing account on other social services),
> if Trac provides support for that.

+1, might be an interesting feature to evaluate.
I'd love OpenID support, for example...

I guess then we'll need a way to blacklist accounts if they are found
to be just spam accounts.

--strk;



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