un-NIH-ing accounts?

[Alex Fiestas]

On Monday 08 October 2012 01:46:40 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday, October 7, 2012 23:10:47 Mark wrote:
> > This page has a bit more info then the google code link (and the
> > packages):
> > http://gitorious.org/accounts-sso/pages/Home
> 
> in each of the git repos is a docs/ directory, in which is a doxygen page
> that gives more details. the gitorious page is pretty light on details (not
> that the doxygen in the git reposs is comprehensive). :/ all in all, pretty
> light on information, but at least there is some technical information in
> the doxygen pages.

This project came out at the last Active sprint, at least 2 people there 
mentioned that the MeeGo system wasn't something we wanted to keep.

I haven't look at the code of the daemon itself but I have looked at the Qt 
api (so I could get inspired for ours). I have to say that the API is quite 
complete though I don't like some syntax but nothing that can be changed or 
even wrapped in case we want to support gnome accounts.

Also iirc we should be able to create a third party module for KDE that 
implements all the goodness we discussed at akademy.

One thing I'd like to point out is that using this accounts-sso will not 
ensure less fragmentation, Ubuntu may decide tomorrow to switch to gnome 
accounts, or to do their own. So if we use accounts-sso we should be prepared 
to take maintainership of it in case it gets unmaintained.