[Qgis-psc] Moving the issue queue to github

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 31 Mar 2016, at 16:37, ElPaso <elpaso at itopen.it> wrote:
> 
> Il 29/03/2016 21:41, Nyall Dawson ha scritto:
>> 
>> 
>> On 29 Mar 2016 9:08 PM, "Sandro Santilli" <strk at keybit.net <mailto:strk at keybit.net>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 03:14:57PM +0100, Giovanni Manghi wrote:
>> >
>> > > What will change? What actions will need to be taken?
>> > >
>> > > * new issues/feature requests tickets will need to be opened in the
>> > > new QGIS bug tracker on GitHub (URL HERE)
>> >
>> > It might be useful to point out that this means that those who
>> > are willing to report bugs would also need agithub.com <http://github.com>
>> > account (ie: the OSGeo userid would not be enough anymore).
>> 
>> I personally see this as an argument in favour of moving to github issues. I think the current process of requiring users to register for an *osgeo site* account to file a bug on the *QGIS site* is confusing for many users. I suspect we lose a lot of reports just because this convoluted sign up/login process makes it too much work for many.
>> 
>> But over at github registration is much more modern, streamlined and user friendly. And it's much easier to understand that you need a *github* account to post on *github*.
>> 
>> Nyall
>> 
> 
> 
> The historical reason for LDAP osgeo account was to have a SSO for all our services, that were hosted on osgeo servers, if I remember correctly, the same osgeo account granted access to the plugin website, the main website, the wiki, the bug tracking system and before we moved to github to SVN repository.
> 
> Just note that the plugins website will still require an osgeo account, unless we find a way to authenticate users against github.


Its pretty easy to do with django-social-auth plugin.

Regards

Tim

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