http://localhost/query?component=vdm&milestone=ckan-sprint-2011-10-24&group=status&order=priority The open source data portal software en-US http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/query?component=vdm&milestone=ckan-sprint-2011-10-24&group=status&order=priority Trac 0.12.3 http://localhost/ticket/1386 http://localhost/ticket/1386 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:18:13 GMT rgrp <p> Superticket: <a class="new ticket" href="http://localhost/ticket/1343" title="enhancement: [super] User related improvements (login, user pages etc) (new)">#1343</a> </p> <p> Creation of accounts from OpenID causes large number of problems: </p> <ul><li>No guarantee of other profile info </li><li>Poor username (just from openid) </li></ul><p> We therefore will: </p> <ol><li>Require creation of user account via register (no auto-creation of accounts via openid) <ul><li>sidebar of register page should point to login page rather than openid signin </li></ul></li></ol><p> </p> <ol start="2"><li>Permit association of an openid with an account ... <ul><li>How: paste in your openid url (requires change to edit form to have this) <ul><li>won't work for google with their weird openid urls </li></ul></li><li>[future] Nicer way is to have login via openid while logged in (which association then happening in background) </li></ul></li></ol><ol start="3"><li>Migration (for 1+2): <ul><li>(?) Generate decent usernames for all existing accounts </li><li>As this is nontrivial suggest instead we allow editing of usernames (by account owner and sysadmins). This is useful in its own right and is a reasonable 80/20 solution. <ul><li>This does present the problem of re-associating commits with the new username. Best solution to this would be to switch revisions to point to userid rather than username. See <a class="new ticket" href="http://localhost/ticket/1534" title="enhancement: Change revisions to record userid rather than username (new)">#1534</a> </li></ul></li></ul></li></ol><ol start="4"><li>[optional] Change display_name to always be username <ul><li>Change My Account to Username at top right of all pages (once we know usernames are short ...) <ul><li>could do this straight away by truncating long usernames (e.g. truncate at 20 chars ...) </li><li>Also should we lose the icon? </li></ul></li></ul></li></ol> Results http://localhost/ticket/1386#changelog