[Qgis-psc] QGIS issue-tracker: only osgeo-login or also QGIS-local logins?

Sandro Santilli strk at kbt.io
Fri Aug 25 08:22:52 PDT 2017


On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 03:20:20PM +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> I am in favor of allowing to create a local QGIS account. I really like
> the osgeo single-sign-on idea but the current situation with the mantra
> is sub-optimal. We want users to be able to report issues, putting extra
> obstacles into their way will not improve issue report quality.

What triggered this discussion was a user with QGIS local account who
asked for a mantra (sounded surprising). Now that same user is saying:

Matra requestor user wrote:
>> If I recall correctly, I tried to use my QGIS issue tracker account to log
>> into the GEOS webpages, and the QGIS credential didn't work. But I may be
>> wrong. I didn't have to get a mantra to create the QGIS account. So I
>> thought that they are different and applied for the osgeo account.
>> 
>> I just tried to use the OSGeo account to log into QGIS, and it seems to
>> work. So I'd like to keep the OSGeo account and remove the QGIS account if
>> possible because I need access to other OSGeo issue trackers.

How hard is it now to "merge" the local user with the OSGeo user ?

--strk;



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