[Qgis-user] OSGeo Account

[Richard McDonnell]

Afternoon all,
I have no issue sharing the Mantra, my only concern was, and there is no 
offence meant here, was the person legitimate.
Are we saying that anyone who contacts the qgis-user looking for a 
mantra can be given one? If that's the case, I have no problem with it, 
Just would like it clarified that's all.
Regards,

Richard.

On 15/06/2016 12:56, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 08:20:30AM +0200, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>> This "mantra" thing doesn't seem to be very intuitive and even less
>> professional.
> I think it is intuitive, there are just not enough responsive
> people on IRC to give the mantra to those who come to request
> one (most of them come from QGIS, which is a good sign of project
> health, btw).
>
> Professional ? Maybe not, not from a system operations point of view.
>
>> Is there any chance that a CAPTCHA or other more common patterns can be
>> used in that signup page?
> The mantra thing was supposed to be a temporary measure.
> Now that we have better antispam measures in place it could be
> removed, but I find getting to meet new users early on IRC to
> be very instructive. This time I suggested Christian to use the
> list in case he wouldn't get a reponse soon. What I'm trying to do
> is to make project members in charge of distributing the mantra to
> users coming for their project. Richard knows how, and can share
> the instructions to others in the team.
>
>> It's supposed to be the entry point for many of QGIS related services after
>> all, even if I start thinking that moving towards other simpler SSO would
>> be advisable at this point.
> Whatever SSO you'd use there's always an initial registration to be
> performed. I think making services more "flexible" to accept different
> kind of authentications would be nice (first and foremost I'd like to see
> OpenID implemented), but it is not the SSO being "hard" here, just the
> OSGeo registration process (intentionally so).
>
> I plan to drop the mantra barrier within a month or so.
> Please remember that before the mantra the user registration was
> just CLOSED, and nobody came to ask anything because there was
> no pointer to reach out to the project members or sysadmin.
> At least now there's a communication channel open. I'll try to
> avoid sending people to the list, but please help with sharing
> the mantra (other recently registered users can further spread it).
>
> --strk;
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