un-NIH-ing accounts?

[David Edmundson]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:
> 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.

It's already fragmented it seems.
http://debarshiray.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/goa-why-it-is-the-way-it-is/

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