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

[DelazJ]

Hi,

Do we have any metrics on the people that went away from issue reporting
because of the mantra mechanism? Any idea if the issues those people didn't
report have not been reported by others, later? Would they be really active
reporters (with feedbacks), once they have made their report if they are
not enough patient for a mantra request (note that I didn't request any and
actually don't how the procedure is, so I might be underestimating the
hassle for the reporter, but anyway...)?
I have no answer for these questions and I assume no one has. But what I
know is:
- there are many issues not yet fixed in Redmine, so unfortunately we are
not lacking issue reports
- QGIS is part of the OSGeo ecosystem and nowadays, one of their
locomotives. Thus imho we have some kind of responsibility to teach the
users, let them know that there's a community of software and philosophy
beyond QGIS. And the unique osgeo login is a nice way. The only thing is
that the osgeo subscription page is a bit not friendly but I hope this will
change with the website rebranding.

About mantras I recall some message asking for more volunteers to help. Do
people from QGIS join the team? (I didn't personally). Was the delay to
deliver the mantra still long?

For what it's worth, my vote is to keep QGIS issue report tied to OSGeo by
using only the unique login and I agree the unique login behavior deserves
to be documented in both sites. But I'm not a QGIS Developer, hence may not
realize how the mantra complicates things for some of us but from a user
perspective, single ID is simply practical, and philosophically
instructive...

my 0.2 cts,
Harrissou
Envoyé depuis mon HTC


----- Reply message -----
De : "Nyall Dawson" <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
Pour : "Matthias Kuhn" <matthias at opengis.ch>
Cc : "qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
Objet : [Qgis-psc] QGIS issue-tracker: only osgeo-login or also QGIS-local
logins?
Date : ven., août 25, 2017 19:05

On 25 August 2017 at 23:20, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> 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.

+1

To me the removal of the mantra dependence was the best part of the
redmine upgrade.

Nyall

>
> I think what's missing currently is a paragraph or two that explain this
> on the registration page to allow users making an informed decision.
>
> And of course the possibility to login with a github account ;)
>
> Matthias
>
> On 08/25/2017 01:18 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
>>
>> According to Juergen we already discussed, so if so ignore me.
>>
>> Currently users can create a (local) user account in our issues/Redmine
>> instance.
>>
>> In my view, we should only accept osgeo-ldap accounts (which are harder
>> to get: you need a mantra etc). But as a bonus users can create issues
>> for all osgeo-projects (and have one 'single-sign-on') .
>>
>> What is the general opinion about this?
>>
>> - accept local accounts or not?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Duivenvoorde
>>
>> PS currently we have the potential problem, that users create both a
>> local and a ldap user account and mix those up (or can impersonate
>> somebody in case somebody else is able to create a QGIS local account
>> after I created a ldap account, but BEFORE I logged in in issues.qgis.org
)
>> PS2 we have 3-6 osgeo/mantra requests per day at Osgeo/SAC and 6-10 new
>> local users at issues.qgis.org. ALL of them are then
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