[Development] Call for Volunteers: SSO-improvements for qt-project.org

[alexandra.leisse at nokia.com]

On 7.12.2011 2:28 AM, "ext Jeff Mitchell" <qt at jefferai.org> wrote:

>On 12/6/2011 12:57 PM, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> to avoid user account fragmentation, we implemented an Single Sign On
>> (SSO) scheme (almost) from the start that 'works' across all the
>> important qt-project.org sites we have so far:
>> 
>> - codereview.qt-project.org (Gerrit)
>> - wiki.qt-project.org (MediaWiki)
>> - bugreports.qt.nokia.com (Jira, which is going to move to
>> qt-project.org eventually)
>> 
>> The SSO scheme is based on Atlassian Crowd, a SSO solution that offers
>> connectors for a lot of web applications. Unfortunately, there are no
>> working connectors for either MediaWiki nor Gerrit. Obviously, Jira
>> works just fine. However, Codereview requires a login, and while the
>> login is optional for the wiki (https only, http allows read-only
>> access), it's confusing. The details are outlined in
>> https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTWEBSITE-326.
>
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>
>At Qt Contributor Day in SF I talked to Alexandra Leisse about
>MediaWiki. Specifically, she hates MediaWiki, and I suggested moving to
>Confluence, as it's a much, much, much, much nicer wiki than MediaWiki,
>and doing it soon before lots of content made migration more difficult.

Just for clarification, I don't hate MediaWiki, I don't have strong
opinions on wikis as long as they get the job done. What I hate is copy
pasting content, particularly when it also includes changing the markup.

So moving content sooner rather than later makes sense since waiting only
creates more work.

BUT.

We're in the web team here are expecting a decision on Qt DevNet today
which may solve a lot of the current issues. I'd hold the horses for a bit
longer, we don't want to risk that anyone is working for the bin.

>This would also take care of the SSI problem, as well as the SSO
>problem, between the wiki and the bug reports, and enable nice
>integration between the two.
>
>I'm not just suggesting it; I'm volunteering. One of the main things I
>think I can do to help out the Qt project is do sysadmin (I'm a KDE
>sysadmin, and I do sysadmin things at work too, and I've set up the
>majority of the Atlassian tools there complete with Crowd for SSO).
>However, Alexandra hasn't yet pointed me to the right person to talk to.

I talked to Matias our sysadmin, and he didn't have the right answer
straight away. Sorry for that. We need to look into it.

Cheers,
Alex
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Alexandra Leisse
http://developer.qt.nokia.com